Col. Rodney Petithomme, 332nd EOG commander, and Lt. Col. Jason Plourde, 79th EFS commander, walk off the flightline after piloting the last two combat aircraft over Iraq on December 18th, 2011. Flying F-16s, they provided top cover for the last convoys leaving the country. [USAF photo by 1st Lt. Rusty Ridley]
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News: Final USAF combat mission over Iraq [2011-12-20]
As the world watched the last convoy pass through the gates at Khabari Crossing on the Kuwait-Iraq border, they may not have realized those on the ground had some help in the skies from Airmen with a historic lineage.
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