50 A.F. reservists are going to Iraq

About 50 members of an Air Force Reserve unit from Hill Air Force Base are headed to Iraq.

The 67th Aerial Port Squadron experts were mobilized recently and will leave the base this week on board military aircraft, says a Hill press release.

"Members of the aerial port squadron are specialists in loading cargo and processing passengers for travel on military aircraft," it adds. Mobilized on Feb. 2, the reservists are scheduled to be deployed for a year.

In peacetime the squadron is a subordinate unit to Hill's 419th Fighter Wing. When called to active duty, they are in the Air Mobility Command and sent around the world in support of national objectives.