Right now, the military members stationed at Joint Base Balad, Iraq, are participating in the responsible drawdown of nearly 150,000 servicemembers from that country.
That means people and equipment from all over Iraq are making their way through Balad on their way back to the United States or forward to bases in Afghanistan, and every piece of equipment, from the smallest box to the largest flatbed truck, needs to be searched.
That’s where members of the 460th Security Forces Squadron, who recently returned from a deployment to Balad, come in. Our Defenders joined with other Airmen from bases around the Air Force to not only meet the increased mission load, but to prepare the base facilities and Iraqi personnel to handle the mission once the drawdown is complete.
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