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Answer to the Trivia Quiz

By Dusty (AKA Attila of Argghhh!) on February 9, 2005 | | Comments (5)

Well, most of you got the unit right...the unit he SUPPORTS, not the unit he's assigned to. The latter would be: Det 1, 4th Air Support Operations Group, Camp Ederle, Italy.

Yup. He's an Airman...an Enlisted Tactical Air Controller with the 173rd.

The big-@ss ruck is something we've been nugging away at reducing for a number of years. Needless to say, we've got a ways to go. Good news is, the 70+ pounds of different radios and batteries is being reduced to a more manageable size with the PRC-117F (mulit-band, programmable, lighter, etc.) Putting one on the Secretary of the Air Force (at that time...), just after we got back from Albania supporting TF HAWK, when he stopped by Mannheim (HQ for the 4th ASOS, the squadron that sets up and runs the ASOC at Corps) did a lot to get the point across...his official escort becoming the USAF Chief of Staff two years later didn't hurt either.)

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By cw4billt on February 9, 2005 11:28 AM
Well, I could just say that I'm not used to seeing them without their black baseball caps, but it was a plain and simple neutron star moment. Incredibly dense.
 
By SangerM on February 9, 2005 12:27 PM
oops. I forgot all about the TACP folks, and I shouldn't have, 'cause a friend/coworker is an exTACP, so I'm never far from TACP TINSs. Anyway, they're not SOF, but they do have to know A LOT. Also, where's the radio antenna? Is that all self-contained now, or only erected when needed?
 
By Instapilot on February 9, 2005 1:19 PM
He probably wasn't going to control any time soon so what probably would have been a TACSAT "umbrella" is stowed. BTW, every major SOF unit has a SOF ETAC (SOTAC) (same career field and AFSC (MOS) just spun-up to be a snake eater while he's assigned SOF support duties).
 
By Dr_Funk on February 9, 2005 9:51 PM
I believe my answer of "Combat Controller" was reasonably close.
 
By Instapilot on February 9, 2005 10:11 PM
Re: "Combat Controller"--hate to say this, but if you make the mistake of calling a ROMAD (Good Old Days name for an ETAC) a Combat Controller, you'll only do it once. Trust me.
 
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