Osgood destined for Iraq
Air Force Capt. Matthew Osgood has deployed overseas to serve in support of Operations Iraqi Freedom and Enduring Freedom.
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.
Operation Enduring Freedom is the official name given to anti-terrorism military operations involving U.S. troops and allied coalition partners. Active duty and reserve component members from all branches of the U.S. armed forces have been deployed to support the war against global terrorism outside the borders of the United States. U.S. troops serve in South, Southwest and Central Asia, the Arabian peninsula, the Horn of Africa, islands in the Pacific and Europe.
Osgood, a C-17 aircraft commander with five years’ of military service, is regularly assigned to the 15th Airlift Squadron, Charleston Air Force Base, S.C.
He is the son of Thomas F. and Ann L. Osgood of Easton.
His wife, Jessica, is the daughter of Edwin K. and Debra J. Cole of Fairmont, Okla.
The captain graduated in 2001 from Easton High School and earned a bachelor’s degree in 2005 from the U.S. Air Force Academy, Colorado Springs, Colo.
