477th FG colonel meets Original Tuskegee Airmen
JOINT BASE BALAD, Iraq -- Four Original Tuskegee Airmen met current members of Air Force Reserve Command’s 477th Fighter Group (originally the 477th Medium Bombardment Group) and 332nd Air Expeditionary Wing (originally the 332nd Fighter Group) during a three-day visit here April 25. Staff Sgt. Philip Broome, Lt. Col. James Warren, Lt. Col. Alexander Jefferson and Maj. George Boyd are joined by Brig. Gen. Brian Bishop, 332nd AEW commander, Col. John Dolan, 332nd AEW vice commander, Col. Eric Overturf, 506th Air Expeditionary Group, (deployed from the 477th FG at Elmendorf Air Force Base, Alaska) and Lt. Gen. Gary North, commander for 9th Air Force and U.S. Air Forces Central Command. (U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman Tiffany Trojca)