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The final F-16 Peace Vector II team was deactivated on 23 June with a ceremony at the Beni Suef Support Compound, Beni Suef AB, Egypt. The Peace Vector II Extended Training Service Specialist teams, collocated with and also led by the PVII commander, began in 1986. The PVII/ETSS team commander, a US Air Force officer, advised the Egyptian Air Force and also served as the functional area commander of the Beni Suef Support Compound, a sixty-nine-acre housing and support facility for American military and contractors located seventy-five miles south of Cairo. Since PVII began, the 242d Wing has flown more than 50,000 F-16 hours. Forty F-16s were delivered to Egypt Peace Vector II.
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