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Air Guard Deployed

Troops board a charter at the Tulsa Air Guard Base.
KWGS News photo
Troops board a charter at the Tulsa Air Guard Base.

By KWGS News

Tulsa, OK – The Oklahoma Air National Guard airmen head overseas today.

200 members of the 138th Fighter Wing, will leave today from the Tulsa International Airport on a chartered aircraft. Once fully deployed, they watch over the U.S. drawdown in Iraq in support of Operation New Dawn.

Deployment is scheduled to last through Thanksgiving.