Posted on 04/19/2008 9:53:48 AM PDT by SandRat
In the four years that Master Sgt. Tony Roy's electronic combat unit has been deployed, he's spent nearly two years away from home.
Roy is one of roughly 140 airmen based at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base who have been constantly at war since March 2004, deploying several times to provide electronic cover to troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Members of the 55th Electronic Combat Group hop back and forth from combat zones to Tucson for months at a time, coming home only long enough to retrain, regroup and head back.
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