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2 unusual facts about 458th Air Expeditionary Group


458th

458th Air Expeditionary Group, a provisional United States Air Force unit assigned to the United States Air Forces in Europe

Mihail Kogălniceanu International Airport

In 2003, it became one of four Romanian military facilities that have been used by U.S. military forces as a staging area for the invasion of and ongoing counter-insurgency efforts in Iraq, operated by the 458th Air Expeditionary Group, and it is intended to become one of the main operating bases of U.S. Army Europe's Joint Task Force East, a rotating task force initially to be provided by the U.S. 2nd Cavalry Regiment, which will eventually grow to a brigade sized force.



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