Air Force Maj. David P. Langan has returned to the 4th Air Support Operations Group in Heidelberg, Germany, after being deployed overseas at a forward operating base to serve in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Langan is a MC-12 aircraft liberty mission commander with 19 years of military services. He is the son of Tom and Jan Langan of Bemidji and Jeanne Langan of Hutchinson, Minn. He graduated from Bemidji High School in 1983 and received a bachelor's degree in 1988 from the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colo.
Operation Iraqi Freedom is the official name given to military operations involving members of the U.S. armed forces and coalition forces participating in efforts to free and secure Iraq. Mission objectives focus on force protection, peacekeeping, stabilization, security and counter-insurgency operations as the Iraqi transitional governing bodies assume full sovereign powers to govern the peoples of Iraq.
Members from all branches of the U.S. military and multinational forces are also assisting in rebuilding Iraq's economic and governmental infrastructure, and training and preparing Iraqi military and security forces to assume full authority and responsibility in defending and preserving Iraq's sovereignty and independence as a democracy.
