About 100 airmen from Moody AFB, Ga., deployed last week to protect deployed USAF assets in the fight against ISIS. The airmen from the 824th Base Defense Squadron deployed April 11 to an undisclosed location in Southwest Asia to “provide fully integrated, highly capable, and responsive forces while safeguarding expeditionary Air Force assets,” according to a Moody release. The squadron is part of the 93rd Air Ground Operations Wing.
An important U.S. Air Force E-3 Sentry AWACS command and control plane was among the aircraft damaged in a March 27 Iranian missile and drone attack on Prince Sultan Air Base, Saudi Arabia, people familiar with the matter told Air & Space Forces Magazine.