Add in the six F-15s and tanker sent earlier and that just about constitutes half of our fighter force. Verrrry impressive.
“The unit will be composed of 12 F-16 planes and will transport 300 soldiers”
Aircrew, crew chiefs, specialists, weapons, support, debrief, production, fuels, sheet metal, metals tech, ammo, life support, and so on. That makes up pretty much all the “soldiers” who would be going on that deployment.