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150A Air Traffic and Airspace Management Technician
By CW2 Rebecca Pinckney and DAC Brian Swensen The 150A Air Traffic and Airspace Management Technician is an Aviation Branch technical warrant officer specializing in the areas of air traffic services, airfield management, and airspace management. They are present throughout Aviation formations from the company level all the way to the airspace management element in the Army Service Component Command (ASCC) headquarters. The Army made the decision in 2005 to revive the 150A Military Occupational Specialty and the first class graduated in August 2007. The 150A career field reached an important milestone in October when the first group of students...
Learn MoreIs Army Aviation Being Marginalized?
Army force structure is under attack from multiple directions. Army leadership is struggling to keep active end strength from going below 490k and there are some proponents who advocate for numbers under 400k! The Army and Army Aviation wisely embarked on a plan to get out in front of the budget hackers who believe that salami slicing a warfighting force is prudent means for achieving monetary targets. The Aviation Restructure Initiative was created in response to this threat; had it not, the outcome for the Army Aviation Enterprise could have been far worse.Now the latest indignity to occur: the disestablishment...
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Current Issue 2022 Summit – The Best Ever! AAAA President’s Cockpit / MG Tim Crosby, U.S. Army Retired:…Read More… Welcome to the Summit! President’s Cockpit / MG Tim Crosby, U.S. Army Retired: Well, it is finally here, our first AAAA Annual Summit in three years. It has been some roller coaster ride through years of pandemic, shut-downs, masks, social distancing and all the rest. Let’s pray…Read More… Clarifying Misconceptions on COVID-19 Vaccines Ask the Flight Surgeon – By MAJ Matthew R. Cooper, DO Let’s start with a brief synopsis of COVID-19. It is caused by a coronavirus, the same family of viruses that...
Learn MoreRealizing the Full Potential of UAS in Air-Ground Operations
By MG Michael D. Lundy Over the past 25 years, the role and demand for unmanned aircraft systems increased dramatically. We have come a long way from a few, modestly capable Pioneer UAS deployed at the theater level during Desert Storm, to the rapid fielding of hundreds upon hundreds of unmanned systems ranging from the simple to sophisticated into nearly every echelon of our Army today. An Apache helicopter takes off at Dugway’s Michael Army Airfield as the Shadow unmanned aircraft is readied for its flight onto the battlefield. – Credit: U.S. ARMY PHOTO BY KARI HAWKINSGiven this dramatic increase...
Learn MoreRevitalizing “5 by 5” Comms
One of my favorite films is a Paul Newman flick, the 1967 film, Cool Hand Luke. One of the most memorable phrases was “What we’ve got here is failure to communicate” spoken at different points in the movie; first, by Strother Martin (the prison warden) and later Newman (as Luke, a young prisoner). I like to focus on communication as one whose left brain (math, science, logic and reasoning) tends to overpower his right (imaginative thinking). I’ve noticed of late that as a society, we are experiencing a noticeable failure to communicate; and that can only be to the detriment...
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