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unusual facts about OIF


OIF

Organisation internationale de la Francophonie, an organization of politics and governments of French-speakers


Acinetobacter

In November, 2004, the CDC reported an increasing number of A. baumannii bloodstream infections in patients at military medical facilities in which service members injured in the Iraq/Kuwait region during Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) and in Afghanistan during Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) were treated.

Content-addressable memory

A major interface definition for CAMs and other Network Search Elements (NSEs) was specified in an Interoperability Agreement called the Look-Aside Interface (LA-1 and LA-1B) developed by the Network Processing Forum, which later merged with the Optical Internetworking Forum (OIF).

Dubai Mercantile Exchange

In the first half of 2007, Oman Investment Fund (OIF) acquired a stake in the DME, which was launched on 1st June of that year.

Marine Aviation Logistics Squadron 39

On January 2003, the squadron deployed as a command in support of Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) both aboard the SS Curtiss (T-AVB-4) aviation logistics support ship, and ashore at Ali Al Salem Air Base, Kuwait and at various Forward Operating Bases throughout Iraq.

Ohio Department of Veterans Services

It also keeps 2.1 million records of Ohio veterans who served in World War II, Korea, Vietnam, and OIF/OEF.

Show of force

As an example, most air "attacks" during OEF and OIF have been simple shows of force where jet aircraft drop flares only while making loud, low-level passes.

VFA-14

During OIF, VFA-14 expended laser-guided bomb's, JDAM bombs and AGM-65 Maverick missiles and conducted numerous long-range missions to northern Baghdad and Tikrit.

VMM-161

Immediate preparations were begun, and the Squadron used its December deployment to Indian Springs, Nevada to train for the conditions that would be faced during OIF II.

VP-8

From February to August 2003, VP-8 deployed to NAF Sigonella and Souda Bay, Crete, to provide 24-hour P-3 support for the two carrier battle groups in the Mediterranean during Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF), flying nearly 100 overland combat missions and over 4,000 flight hours from Italy, Greece, Germany, Spain, and Senegal.


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