LAS VEGAS - Members of the U.S. Air Force were greeted as they returned home to Nevada this week after assisting with the massive evacuation effort of Afghan nationals and their families amid the U.S.
withdrawal from Afghanistan and the Taliban’s takeover.Airmen from the 58th and 66th Rescue Squadrons and 855th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron returned from their deployment on Sept.
7 to Nellis Air Force Base in southern Nevada, officials said. They had been located in the Middle East as part of Operation Allies Refuge, which aimed to airlift certain at-risk Afghan civilians, their families and others eligible for U.S.