The Two-Year Reserve Duty: Members of the Air Force Reserve Command’s 773rd Airlift Squadron, Youngstown ARS, Ohio, have returned home after two years of duty in Iraq, reports the Youngstown Vindicator. They flew their C-130s for Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom from Dec. 1, 2003, to Nov. 30, 2005. When they returned, the commander of the 910th Airlift Wing, the unit’s parent, presented 220 Air Medals and 10 Aerial Achievement Medals to unit members.
Raytheon, a division of defense giant RTX, recently announced a multiyear deal with the Pentagon to increase annual production of the Air Force’s primary dogfighting missile by more than 50 percent from two years ago.
