The White Falcon - 22.10.2003, Side 8

Senior Airman Jordana Jordan, points out a contact on the radar screen to Capt.
Paul Wilkerson, senior director, during operations at the 932nd Air Control
Squadron. The 932nd just completed Aiming Fist, a North Atlantic Treaty
Organization exercise involving 16 countries. (Photo by J02(SW/AW) Mat Sohl)
----------------Loki, from pg. 5
Icelandic Air Traffic Control. If the con-
tact was unknown, the technicians next
determined if the aircraft was friend or foe.
The weapons team took control in any
situation where the contact was identified
as a foe, ensuring the weapons director had
full knowledge unknown contact’s loca-
tion. The weapon’s director and the senior
director then discussed the best possible
and most efficient way to intercept and
visually identify the unknown aircraft.
As the weapons director and senior
director collaborated the intercept, a senior
director technician coordinated airspace
requests with Icelandic air traffic control.
All actions taken to intercept unknown air-
craft had to be in compliance with Air
Force instructions to maintain the
restraints associated with political sensitiv-
ities as well as the constraints imposed by
live flying operations during peacetime.
Each position had its trying moments.
“The most difficult portion, in my opin-
ion, was the overall preparing for the exer-
cise,” said Senior Airman Kaci Wees, a
weapons director technician. “Specifically
the briefings, keeping all the information
straight, knowing the capabilities of the
aircraft that we were up against and also
keeping an eye on the big picture”.
“I think the hardest portion of the exer-
cise which is also the most critical was
updating the Visual Display System,” said
Senior Airman Adam Snowden, the senior
director technician whose main job was to
coordinate airspace and maintain the basic
flow of information up and down the chain
of command. The system was a device
used to non-verbally pass information to
the entire Loki team, but most importantly
to the weapons directors who in turn
passed the information to the fighter
pilots.
A large amount of the thanks for the suc-
cess of this mission goes to their
Simulation team- Staff Sgt. Kenneth Hass,
Staff Sgt. Lonnie Tally, Senior Airman
James Wilkinson, Senior Airman Christina
Coler, Airman 1st Class Thomas Garcia,
and Airman 1 st Class Jacob Henry.
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