During Operation Southern Watch, this required aircraft carrying offensive strike ordnance for use against ground targets in Iraq to be stationed in Kuwait or aboard aircraft carriers in the Persian Gulf | |
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19 Squadron RSAF with the and the signals intelligence aircraft• troops joined approximately 700 service members already stationed at the air base, along with deploying , and | Between 2003 and 2005 from were based here in support of before moving to RAF Al Udeid a section of the Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar |
Following the attack on USAF facilities at in Dharan in 1996, all USAF activities at that location were relocated to PSAB.
16Wing 6 Royal Saudi Air Force• The United States Navy, Navy Reserve and United States Marine Corps also employed EA-6B aircraft from PSAB as well | operations at PSAB began migrating to in , |
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Right now, the large white tents that flap in the stiff winds give a temporary feel to the mission | presence was predominantly that of multiple USAF flying units, augmented by a USN or USMC squadron, a RAF fighter squadron with F |
Source: DAFIF effective October 2006.