Some airmen facing longer deployments

Some airmen facing longer deployments

(EXCERPT) , By Lisa Burgess, Stars and Stripes Pacific edition,
Friday, January 16, 2004

ARLINGTON, Va. — By March, the Pacific Air Forces fighter wings that
fought in Iraq will be ready to go back to the normal, 90-day Air
Expeditionary Force rotation cycles.

But many airmen who support the aviators will remain on longer
deployment cycles, a senior Air Force official said Tuesday.

“After the war was over, we got our aircraft back relatively quickly,
and they’ve been in the process of reconstituting,” Gen. William
Begert, commander of Pacific Air Forces, told reporters in Washington.
“By March, they’ll be ready for a normal rotation.”

But the support personnel are another story, Begert said.

“I think it’s going to be a while before we go back to [routine 90-day
deployments on the support si...

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