MOODY AIR FORCE BASE, Ga. – Christmas is just around the corner, and approximately 150 Airmen from the 823rd Base Defense Squadron returned to Moody Air Force Base yesterday just in time for the holidays. The airmen are a part of the security forces unit within the 93rd Air Ground Operations Wing, and have been gone on a six-month deployment to Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan.

The 93rd AGOW conducts offensive and defensive ground combat operations to protect expeditionary aerospace forces with an airborne capability. At a moment’s notice, they provide worldwide deployable, “first-in,” fully integrated, multi-disciplined capabilities. They provide the joint force commander airborne, air-mobile, air-land, and over-land insertion capability, and remain the joint expert on integration of air power and combat weather support to ground forces.

They also provide Joint Force Commanders with expertise on the integration of air power and extend the Theater Air Control System for the Joint Forces Air Component Commander.

Source: Moody Air Force Base Press Release