Some 500 Air Force Reserve Command airmen from five states spent the weekend at Pope AFB, N.C., training with AFRC’s 440th Airlift Wing, which relocated from Wisconsin to North Carolina under BRAC 2005. The Fayetteville (N.C.) Observer reports that only about 120 of the 440th AW’s Wisconsin airmen made the switch to Pope. Ultimately, the unit expects to have 1,800 Reservists.
As the Air Force readied for its June 21-22 strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities, the service was also putting its Agile Combat Employment strategy into action, dispersing combat aircraft and Airmen from Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar in preparation for a possible Iranian retaliatory attack. Some defense experts say…
