KTUU-TV AnchorageAlaskaUSA - About 200 men and women from Elmendorf Air Force Base were in the air Saturday night, most of them headed for the Middle East. This is the first of two major deployments slated for late summer and early fall.
By autumn, EAFB will have between 1,000 and 2,000 people deployed overseas, most of them in Iraq and Afghanistan. It's part of a military ramp-up aimed