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BULLSEYE Feature 7July 17, 2015
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RED FLAG, from page 6 ______________ Before any unit can leave Red Flag, they need U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Mikaley Towle
to have a joint inspection performed on their
sections form the Nellis Support Center. The aircraft and cargo.
NSC takes care of all the Red Flag participants
by in processing them and ensuring they have “We’ll set up joint inspections to help make
lodging and transportation. sure that every piece of cargo that leaves is
safe,” said Hetherington. “We have to wait to
“The Nellis Support Center gives us a break- start joint inspections on the aircraft until
down on what type of cargo we have to down- they land, are fixed, and ready to travel home.
load and what we can expect when Red Flag Red Flag ends on a Friday and most units are
kicks off,” said Tech. Sgt. Walter Hetherington, leaving that Saturday morning, so it makes for
99th LRS air terminal NCO in charge. “Every late nights and long work days.”
unit that comes to Red Flag needs to bring their
own support with them.” The air terminal works hard to help ensure
everyone who comes to Red Flag gets home safe.
The air terminal downloads, uploads, per-
forms joint inspections, and manifests all pas- “We make sure nobody is carrying any-
sengers and cargo that is transported by air in thing illegal aboard the plane, that anything
and out of Nellis AFB during Red Flag. involving hazardous materials is taken care
of, and that the equipment is safe and isn’t
“Red Flag doesn’t have much impact on the going to cause an in-flight emergency,” said
job itself,” said Staff Sgt. William Broughton, Hetherington.
99th LRS air terminal supervisor. “We still per-
form our day-to-day operations, just on a much Even when Red Flag is not going on, Heth-
larger scale, with longer hours.” erington said they have still have the busiest
terminal in Air Combat Command and nobody
Talking with aircrews and asking for space- in ACC has a mission like theirs.
available flight slots are just one of many tasks
that the air terminal does on a daily basis. Airmen assigned to the 823rd Maintenance
Squadron load an HH-60G Pave Hawk onto a C-17
“Our normal day-to-day mission is to check Globemaster III on the flightline near the 99th
the schedules, see what cargo is inbound and Logistics Readiness Squadron air terminal at Nellis
gear up the right personnel and the material Air Force Base, Nev., July 14. Air terminal Airmen
handling equipment for that job,” said Heth- usually load and unload cargo from aircraft, but
erington. “That way when the aircraft lands we Airmen in HH-60G squadrons are specifically
know what’s on it and what equipment we need trained on how to load a Pave Hawk onto an aircraft.
to get it downloaded and make sure the aircraft
departs here on time.”
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