Air Support/Defense

A.                 Air Support.  During the month of August the air support requirements were increased due to operations in the field. Supporting operations consisted of resupply, medical evacuation and close air support.

1.     Air Support Request

a.                  Helicopter

(1)   Requests

(a)   Missions requests      60

(b)   Missions completed   58

(2)   Evacuation

(a)   Mission requests        56

(b)   Missions completed   56

(3)   Tactical (includes Recon)

(a)   Mission requests        40     

(b)   Missions completed   36

2.     Fixed Wing Transport.  None

3.     Air Strikes. 36

B.        Air Defense.  48 TPQ’s were used for night defense

This page last updated 19 August 2011