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  • LZSO training with the 20th OSS

    When the mission demands precise and timely landings, even the most challenging terrain can be overcome. Landing zone safety officers play a critical role in ensuring aircraft can safely touch down in contingency locations, no matter how remote or underdeveloped.

  • 379th ECS facilitates critical communication throughout CENTCOM

    In the U.S. Central Command, all operations circulate around the ability to communicate clearly and effectively. Whether it be contingency response crews at forward-deployed locations relaying information or Air Traffic Control tower personnel clearing the skies - every mission depends on the 379th

  • Emergency at 580 feet

    Staff Sgt. Samuel McLean, 20th Operations Support Squadron Air Traffic Control watch supervisor, was handling a single U.S. Air Force F-16 Fighting Falcon on approach to Shaw Air Force Base with radar approach control when a phone call leads him to assist a Cessna 550 Citation II civilian pilot who

  • Training the next generation of Air Traffic Controllers

    From organizing and expediting ground to air traffic, to issuing instructions and monitoring aircraft in air space over the ocean off the continental United States, the U.S. Air Force’s Air Traffic Control (ATC) tower and Radar Approach Control (RAPCON) Airmen are trained to the highest of standards

  • Controlling Chaos

    At Prince Sultan Air Base, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, two air traffic control liaisons from the 378th Expeditionary Operations Support Squadron grabbed their 72-hour bags and made their way to the passenger terminal on Aug. 17, 2021. They were tasked to forward deploy with an hour’s notice.