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Article: Buying the base: taking over security forces operations at Kirkuk has led to more predictability and sustainability for AFRC and its Reservists.(Cover story)
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- Citizen Airman
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- April 1, 2009
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Air Force Reserve security forces specialists have been heavily involved in supporting the Global War on Terrorism since Sept. 11, 2001, but a recent change in the way they are resourced to deploy is resulting in more predictability and sustainability for Air Force Reserve Command members, their families and their employers.
In the past, when Reserve security forces specialists deployed to the theater of operations, they would usually find themselves absorbed by the active-duty run security forces squadron at any of a number of locations--Balad Air Base, Iraq; Kirkuk AB, Iraq; or Bagram AB, Afghanistan. That all changed in July ...