Dayhoff Soundtrack: Stars and Stripes Daily Headlines: Photos: Last U.S. airmen fly out of Ali Air Base

Sunday, December 18, 2011

Stars and Stripes Daily Headlines: Photos: Last U.S. airmen fly out of Ali Air Base

Photos: Last U.S. airmen fly out of Ali Air Base
The last U.S. airmen to leave Iraq boarded a C-17 Globemaster
Saturday night at Ali Air Base in Tallil, Iraq, some 200 miles
southeast of Baghdad. The airmen and some U.S. soldiers
shook hands with senior leaders as they boarded the plane.

Minesweepers ?some of the most versatile? sailors
As the USS Patriot steamed down the western coast of Japan under
blackout conditions, Senior Chief Petty Officer Jesse Kenner and
several junior sailors pored over radar and communications screens
in the ship's combat information center.

?No sadness? as U.S. troops leave Iraq
With little fanfare, the last U.S. troops in Iraq rolled through an
open gate at the Kuwaiti border Sunday, officially marking the
end of the Iraq war.

Camp Echo packs up in Iraq with little fanfare
Army Reserve Sgt. Christopher Williams was there at the start,
in 2003, when U.S. forces streamed north from Kuwait into
Iraq after the 'shock and awe' aerial bombardments
in a race to secure Baghdad.

Final days at Sather Air Base, Iraq
Servicemembers with the 447th Expeditionary Security
Forces Squadron, Sather Air Base, Iraq, spend their
final days in Iraq training Iraq Air Force security forces
servicemembers and strengthening their relationships.

USAREUR adds 'newsroom' section to smartphone app
U.S. Army Europe has updated its smartphone app,
adding a 'Newsroom' section that links users to the
command's news page on its website, USAREUR
announced Friday.

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