Vice president-elect meets Airmen in Southwest Asia

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  • By Staff Sgt. Thomas J. Doscher
  • 386th Air Expeditionary Wing Public Affairs
SOUTHWEST ASIA (AFNS) --  Vice President-elect Joe Biden met Airmen from the 387th Air Expeditionary Group here as part of his tour of American bases in the Southwest Asia region.  

Vice President-elect Biden is scheduled to visit Iraq after meeting with officials in Pakistan and Afghanistan. 

He takes office Jan. 20 along with President-elect Barack Obama. 

"He's the first distinguished visitor I've met here," said Staff Sgt. Michael Dillon, 387th Expeditionary Support Squadron force protection augmentee deployed from Maxwell-Gunter Air Force Base, Ala. 

"It was an honor to meet him," said the native of Athens, Ohio.

Airman 1st Class Hugh Montgomery-Jones of the 387th ESPTS said he appreciated the future vice president's choice of aircraft, a C-130 Hercules from his home station of Dyess AFB, Texas.

"It's nice to know someone like him would fly on the same planes as us," he said. Airman Montgomery-Jones, originally from Washington, D.C., had only been on station a week.

"It's one of the highlights of my military career," he said.

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