Brian Francisco The Journal Gazette
The 122nd Fighter Wing is not sharing any war stories from a six-month deployment to the Middle East.
While waiting for about 300 airmen to return Wednesday to the Air National Guard base on Ferguson Road, the base commander told reporters that he could not divulge mission details.
“They’re doing the nation’s business, and they’re doing it well,” Col. Patrick Renwick said at a news conference.
Renwick said the mission of the dozen A-10 attack jets and their support personnel was “to deliver combat firepower decisively” and that “they did that in fine fashion.” The U.S. Central Command in the Middle East was “very satisfied with what our airmen have been able to produce,” he said.
Those planes launched frequent airstrikes against Islamic State forces and assets in Iraq and Syria beginning in November, according to the website of the U.S. Air Forces Central Command.
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