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AirField Stands Up 2nd wing In Afghanistan.
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The buildup of airmen inside Afghanistan met another milestone with the standing up of the second wing in Afghanistan.
The 451st Air Expeditionary Wing was formally established during a July 2 ceremony at Kandahar Airfield in southern Afghanistan.
Commanding the new wing is Brig. Gen. Guy M. Walsh. Before taking the Kandahar assignment, Walsh served in the Maryland Air National Guard’s 175th Wing, home to C-130Js and A-10 Thunderbolts. He also served in 2005 as the director of staff for the Combined Air Operations Center at Al-Udeid Air Base in Qatar.
The Air Force has been at Kandahar since 2001, but troops there answered to a wing headquartered several hundred miles away at Bagram Airfield.
The mission at Kandahar has steadily grown to include a C-130J squadron, aerial port operations, combat search and rescue sorties and MQ-1 Predator flights.