sentences:  In 2003, the wing was converted to provisional status as the 484th Air Expeditionary Wing (AEW) and activated as part of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF).The role of the 484th AEW was to provide a centralized command and control element to support all Tactical Air Control Parties and Combat Weather Teams operating in the Southwest Asia theater of operations.It provided combat enabling, contingency response, terminal attack and combat weather support to the coalition air forces and special forces and Army maneuver units on the battlefield.