War and Peace in the Nuclear Age; Visions of War and Peace; 113; 7th Airborne Command and Control Squadron

I love the fly. The job is very very challenging. The seventh is an integral part of tactical air command. Heavy aircraft unit. I'm Colonel Steve Foster the commander of the 7th airborne command and control splutter the 7th X primary mission is the commanding control of tactical air resources in the air to ground war. We basically are the link between the Tactical Air Control Center and the forward air controller who does a direct control of the aircraft. The seventh X is also unique in the fact that it has several aircrew positions that don't exist in other aircraft for example in the back we have the director of airborne battle staff known as the dad as the role of the dad the basically the recording nadir we direct the battle for the AF and we have approximately 11

highly variant people that work for it. It is very important to have a fact full background because most of our work is done with fighter aircraft and it is essential that we understand the pilot. We do not ever try to take away from the pilot. Were trying to make our forces more effective and their job. They for us. Break up the bankrupt Medicaid problem here. The Intel section is unique in the fact that it is one of those few opportunities for an intelligence officer or intelligence technician to actually apply their knowledge in an ongoing fluid battlefield situation in the position we can be deployed on with NO to go anywhere in the world. Across the board and I'm gonna hop up and down three times when I'm responsible for listening to them go to bed of which I then interpret analyze

and use. To nominate part of our stock market has been down. They are pretty much where they will declare that they are target. Bang a bang up America you might try to get up to put on a tux APC's primary responsibility it is to ensure the air tasking order is accomplished. I tracked the strike aircraft ensuring that they meet their time on target and it's considerably different mainly due to the fact we have no radar on board and the primary job of our weapons controllers do they usually are those hundred percent communications. We are a communications platform.

We have some of the most experienced radio operators in the air force and basically they make our job 100 percent here. We have a hundred and eight. And the people blind in the organization flying on the airborne battlefield manifold center of the unique experience and on the fourth of the year time they might be gone. One hundred two hundred twenty eight hundred a year. I think Brant if you can pass that for me. If I click on. Each. Continent. You're going to get the support back where foresight is to get

the bombs on target.