The prize has to be flying airborne command and control and having several of the fighters you are controlling sweeping you with their weapons radars.

We really need to address these issues, because they have been going on for decades, and I really thought they would have been solved by now.

I assume this is the system that has been installed at Fort Greely as part of the anti-missile defense.

Personally, I’d like to see some money spent on IFF for our own helicopters and ground vehicles, to stop the Air Force from launching on them. A common command frequency would be nice.

I think any of the services could have done this job, and one of them should have been selected and allowed to do it. Joint operations tend to get people killed.

In any case this is a damn expensive way to de-orbit satellites.

The primary tasks of MOS 14J Soldiers are to operate the Air Defense System Integrator, Air and Missile Defense Workstation and the Forward Area Air Defense Command and Control processor, while Aviators operate the Tactical Airspace Integration System and ADAM Brigade Aviation Element. Combining the capabilities of these robust systems together enables aviation planning and A2C2 at a single location, while providing the maneuver commander with reliable situational awareness utilized to de-conflict regional air space and mitigate risks of fratricide.

Ya, lots a jargon, I know. Anyways, while on the way to PT one morning before dark, there was a sudden brightening in the sky. I looked up to see the trail of a missile head up, up, and up. Then, big flash.

Here is the whole story: White Sands missile test ‘phenomenal’

I’m too intimately involved with the Air Defense community to speak ill of it so I’ll have to pass on going farther.