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Guam Guard airmen begin departing for deployments
Airmen from the Guam Air National Guard’s 254th Air Base Group and the 254th Security Forces Squadron have been departing over the past week en route to several deployment missions and locations in support of Operation Inherent Resolve in Southwest Asia.
The airmen of the 254ABG, specifically the Cyber Flight, are tasked to provide quality communication systems and services to its units worldwide. This includes equipping, administering, training and providing personnel to operate and maintain good ground communications, electronics and computer systems and facilities.
The members of the 254SFS are tasked with the protection of those that protect our nation. They are responsible for force protection and anti-terrorism duties to defeat security threats and tasked with the protection of Federal property from hazards such as sabotage, espionage, trespass, theft, fire, and accident or willful damage and destruction, in addition to maintaining law and order, preserve the peace, and protect life and civil rights within their assigned theater of operations in order to engineer combat power and establish and sustain combat platforms.
More airmen are scheduled to leave in the coming days and weeks as required. Theywill be deployed for approximately six months. (PR)
