Deployed Airman celebrates Black History Month at wing pioneered by Tuskegee Airmen > U.S. Air Forces Central > News
Black History Month takes on special significance at the 332 nd AEW because the wing finds its roots in the story of the Tuskegee Airmen, a segregated African-American unit who earned distinction during WWII. Only activated during combat the wing has performed its mission two different times since the 1940s, in Al Jaber, Iraq, and now in an undisclosed location also in the Middle East. With that in mind wing Airmen formed a committee to celebrate Black History. “Black History Month—it allows us to look back at our past—to dictate our future, but not just the future of black people but a...