Dozens of airmen returned to Delaware following a four-month rotation to Afghanistan, with another 14 heading out on another deployment. About 130 members of the Delaware Air National Guard’s 166th Airlift Wing are returning from a 120 day rotation in support of Operation Freedom’s Sentinel — the continued US military mission in Afghanistan. Four C-130Hs are returning back from the deployment as well. The base on April 10 will hold a ceremony for the airmen who are returning from the deployment. Four of the unit’s C-130Hs and more than 150 airmen are still deployed to Afghanistan, and will return over the next six months, according to a 166th Airlift Wing release. The airmen flew cargo and troops throughout Afghanistan, along with Iraq and southwest Asia. Fourteen separate airmen, members of the 166th’s aeromedical evacuation mission, are deploying April 10 to various overseas and stateside missions, according to the release.
The U.S., South Korea, and Japan flew an unusual trilateral flight with two U.S. B-52H Stratofortress bombers escorted by two Japan Air Self-Defense Force F-2s, and two ROK Air Force KF-16 fighters—both countries’ respective variants of the F-16—July 11. That same weekend, the top military officers of the three nations…