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when the first F fifteens from Mountain

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Home Air Force Base Idaho taxing into

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bagram air fields parking ramp , it

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signaled the start of a very short but

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significant transition unlike most Air

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Force deployments , flying squadrons ,

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especially fighter units deployed

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together . The departing fighter

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squadron , the 3 36 out of Seymour

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johnson Air Force Base north Carolina

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brought their own fleet of F fifteens

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and racked up about 13,000 flying hours

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and 3000 sorties in their six month

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deployment . While this might seem like

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a big change over the plan for the 389

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T bolts out of mountain home is the

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same as their predecessors . Some of

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the things that we talked about ,

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number one was staying focused on the

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mission . Um , this is obviously what

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our nation has asked us to do . They've

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called us to perform this duty and

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we're gonna do it with precision ,

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We're gonna do it with discipline . At

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the same time . We're gonna make sure

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that our support network back home and

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our families are taken care of and we

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left that in place . The T bolts are

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just getting started on this deployment ,

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but they've hit the ground running .

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One of the biggest challenges we have

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is moving the 18 jets from Mountain

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Home Air Force Base to the austere

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conditions . We see around us as well

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as the 400 plus support personnel to

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support the mission . We've done it

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from day one . We got a great handoff

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from our previous squadrons , but we're

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basically executing the mission in

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accordance with the ground commander's

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intent and we're supporting that 18

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year old who's outside the wire with

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his rifle in their six month rotation .

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They expect an ops tempo , much like

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that of their predecessors that should

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make for a very busy deployment , Staff

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Sergeant Larry more bagram Airfield

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Afghanistan .