6/30/2023 0 Comments Atcs army training![]() ![]() Additionally, more than six tons of cargo were air-dropped on the airfields during the exercise using pallets slung under parachutes. The new airfield also boasted a landing by the largest airframe in the inventory, the C-5 Galaxy. From those three airfields, they controlled C-130s from the 192 nd Airlift Squadron, Nevada Air National Guard, who landed there as part of their unit’s required training, as well as Civil Air Patrol aircraft.īetween the three airfields, air traffic controllers guided 316 aircraft on approach vectors toward the live airfield, including two Kingsley Field F-15 Eagles. Initially the 270 th Air Traffic Control Airmen set up an airfield at Amedee, but also did the same in Herlong and Susanville, Calif. “Opening one airfield creates a vulnerability, so this exercise was designed to take little teams and to setup, remote, rapidly-established all-weather airfields, use them and then quickly break them down again.”Ī single airfield in a combat zone is a ripe target he explains, whereas the small temporary airfields provide an element of surprise, denying the adversary a single fixed target. John Wyman, the project coordinator for the training. “We actually opened three different airfields at once,” said Chief Master Sgt. In short it’s the ability to provide flexible support to air operations in a given area and it hasn’t been done before. ![]() It’s all called Agile Combat Employment or ACE. This year they traveled to Amedee Army Airfield, Calif., in early summer of 2022 to test new capabilities needed for the modern field of battle and for natural disaster response. The 270 th Air Traffic Control Squadron at Kingsley Field in Klamath Falls, Ore., spends two weeks a year practicing its deployed mission, establishing airfields in remote locations. ![]()
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