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Al-Asad Air Base Comes Under Rocket Attack, Pentagon Confirms

March 3, 2021 | By Jennifer-Leigh Oprihory
About 10 rockets struck Al-Asad Air Base, Iraq, on the morning of March 3, just over a year after Iranian ballistic missiles ravaged the installation and left more than a hundred U.S. troops with traumatic brain injuries, the Pentagon confirmed. An American contractor suffered “a ...

Kirtland Airmen Receive DFCs, Bronze Star for Roles in Al-Asad Missile Attack

Nov. 9, 2020 | By Brian W. Everstine
Two special operations CV-22 Osprey pilots and a special missions aviator on Nov. 3 received valor awards for evacuating forces before and after the Jan. 7 Iranian ballistic missile attack on al-Asad Air Base, Iraq. The attack, which came in response to the U.S. killing ...

Iranian Ballistic Missile Launch Briefly Raises Alarm at Al Udeid, Al Dhafra

July 28, 2020 | By Brian W. Everstine
Personnel at Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar, and Al Dhafra Air Base, United Arab Emirates, briefly took cover after Iran launched ballistic missiles into the nearby Persian Gulf, which landed in the sea without incident on July 28, the U.S. military said this week. At ...
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