Lt. Col. Jason Plourde, 79th EFS commander and Col. Rodney Petithomme, 332nd EOG commander, shake hands after flying the last two combat aircraft over Iraq on December 18th, 2011. Piloting 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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