Last batch of main ASDF troops return home after ending Iraq mission

Last batch of main ASDF troops return home after ending Iraq mission

KOMAKI, Japan - The last batch of Air Self-Defense Force troops returning home from Kuwait, where they have been stationed for Japan's airlift mission for Iraq, arrive by a government-chartered aircraft on Dec. 23 at the ASDF's Komaki base in Komaki, Aichi Prefecture.

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