Army - Operation Provide Comfort - Hoodie scpo 61st Fighter Squadron members past

61st Fighter Squadron members past and present

and in the Army Reserve

It was reorganized and redesignated on 3 February 1964 as Headquarters and Headquarters Troop

which had become difficult to move between sectors because they had developed individual means of operating in conjunction with the formations they supported

Historical Significance: Honors Vietnam veterans of the Tropic Lightning Division

Army - Operation Provide Comfort - Hoodie scpo 61st Fighter Squadron members pastOperation Provide Comfort and Provide Comfort II were military operations initiated by the United States and other Coalition nations of the Persian Gulf War, starting in April 1991, to defend Kurdish refugees fleeing their homes in northern Iraq in the aftermath of the Gulf War, and to deliver humanitarian aid to them.