JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, Wash. (AP) — Joint Base Lewis-McChord says more than 130 airmen are returning Thursday after a four-month deployment flying and operating C-17 cargo planes in support of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The 816th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron moved nearly 34,000 passengers and delivered more than 81 million pounds of cargo.
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