332nd AIR EXPEDITIONARY WING — Expeditionary security forces squadrons share a culture across the globe—wherever the U.S. Air Force needs to fly aircraft into harm’s way.
They are there keeping Airmen and resting aircraft safe. They patrol the fence line; control who steps onto the base.
They do this with the knowledge that it’s not a safe profession, but an absolutely critical one.
On the fence line, a two-ton M-ATV crawls past. A rugged vehicle constructed to survive the blast of an improved explosive device, it boasts an M-240 machine gun turret, 6.6 liter turbo diesel motor, bullet-proof glass, 46-inch run-flat tires and a small, unobtrusive stencil on the back door.
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“On the side of all our ‘Mat-Vees’ each one has a unique name, for example this one is TORQE 6-2,” explains Senior Airman Camron Nuner, pointing at the vehicle. “It’s named after the call sign of a C-130 at ‘J-Bad’ that crashed outside the wire in October 2015 killing five contractors and six Airmen including two of our defenders.”
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