1st ASDF cargo plane returns to Japan after completing Iraqi ops

1st ASDF cargo plane returns to Japan after completing Iraqi ops

NAGOYA, Japan - An Air Self-Defense Force personnel (R) is greeted by his family at the Komaki Air Base in Aichi Prefecture on Dec. 19 as he returned from Iraq. The first of Japan's three ASDF cargo planes involved in airlifting activities in Iraq returned to Japan following the Japanese government's decision last month to pull the ASDF out from the region.

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