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Safe Riding Doesn’t Just Happen
By CSM Leeford C. Cain Safe driving or riding doesn’t just happen. It’s a byproduct of receiving the right training and education, exercising self-discipline, meeting standards and assessing one’s ability to execute a given task. Since I spoke those words a little more than a month ago, we have closed out another fiscal year. And while accidental losses continue to trend downward, we’re still missing 129 Soldiers from our formations due to incidents that could have been prevented. Of that total, 75 percent of those fatalities resulted from off-duty privately owned vehicle accidents. That tells me that we still have...
Learn MoreTraffic is the Greatest Need for Our Tactical Air Traffic Controllers
By CSM Eric C. Thom While the last decade of deployed operations has stressed our Aviation community, our resilience remains intact. Countless air traffic professionals remain poised to accomplish the next mission, eagerly train and prepare their Soldiers to perform at the highest levels, and continuously seek opportunities to put their technical skills to the test. Maintaining this pace and excellence as we transition out of deployed operations will require a continued modernization of air traffic systems, and a keen understanding and technical competency of complex air traffic environments. The Branch’s effort to modernize tactical systems has provided air traffic...
Learn More150A 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...
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