Base exercise keeps deployed 386th Airmen focused

Senior Airman BreAnna Nygren secures Staff Sgt. Andy Hix to a gurney during a simulated rocket blast exercise at the 386th Air Expeditonary Wing. Sergeant Hix was simulating the role of a victim of the blast. Sergeant Hix is the fuels storage supervisor for the 386th Expeditionary Logistics Readiness Squadron and Airman Nygren is an aerospace medicine journeyman with the 386th Expeditionary Medical Group. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Cynthia Spalding)

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Photo essay: Base exercise keeps deployed 386th Airmen focused

Published May 12, 2011

SOUTHWEST ASIA -- Members of the 386th Air Expeditionary Wing recently conducted a base exercise in which deployed Marauders responded to a simulated rocket blast.

This base exercise is just one of the myriad ways the 386th achieves and maintains mission readiness at this deployed location.

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