Airmen are taking new and challenging billets in Iraq, and the job of the 732nd Expeditionary Mission Support Group’s Personnel Support for Contingency Operation team is to keep track of them all. While most of the “in lieu of forces” airmen are separate from the EMSG at Balad Air Base, the have to be in-processed. Supporting 30 forward locations and over 1,000 airmen in the wing who work outside Balad, the team’s office is manned 18 hours a day and another is on standby 24 hours a day. In addition to personnel assistance, the team liaison’s work, database support and emergency support assistance.
The Pentagon is significantly bolstering airpower near Venezuela, dispatching the USS Gerald R. Ford Carrier Strike Group to Latin America, it said in an Oct. 24 statement. The announcement came just hours after U.S. Air Force B-1 bombers and other U.S. assets flew near the Venezuelan coast on Oct. 23.
