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The United States Air Force's 379th Air Expeditionary Wing (AEW) is recognized as the largest and most diverse expeditionary wing within the Air Combat Command. This provisional unit supports global operations with over 100 modern aircraft for combat missions, intelligence sorties, aeromedical evacuation, and humanitarian efforts.
"The 379th was a unit equipped with the B-17 Flying Fortress, the instrument of making daylight precision bombing against our nation’s enemies a reality," states the Air Force. The wing plays a significant role in supporting operations such as INHERENT RESOLVE, SPARTAN SHIELD, and ENDURING SENTINEL by generating over 5,000 combat sorties and more than 20,000 flight hours annually.
The 379 AEW offloads 80 million pounds of fuel to over 8,000 receivers while transporting 28,000 passengers and delivering 66 million pounds of cargo. It also handles over 1,000 aeromedical evacuation patients for both combat and humanitarian missions. "Our airfield... consists of two runways and contingency parking for well over 100 aircraft supporting over 57,000 events annually," says the Air Force.
