Air Force Special Operations Command says it is weeks from deploying its fleet of CV-22B Osprey aircraft for counter terror operations, after grounding its crews in the wake of a fatal crash last November in Japan.

The news comes less than a year after a deadly November CV-22 Osprey crash in Japan that claimed the lives of eight airmen.

The Air Force is weeks away from sending its V-22 Ospreys back to combatant commands after the Pentagon lifted a monthslong grounding on the tiltrotor fleet earlier this year. “We will deploy out here in the coming weeks,