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AFE, from page 6 ____________________ equipment is something Faulkner says he enjoys C 17, from page 5 _______________________________
understand students are dealing with rigorous and is an attractive feature about the USAFWS “Red Flag is good crew coordination because were able to work
academic deadlines and intense ying schedules. for those in his career eld.
with the pilots and see what we are able to do,” said Igalo. “As well
“ e students are in a hurry and need us to do “ e best thing is the variety. Since we work as being great for crew coordination it serves as great training for
things in a small amount of time,” said Faulkner. on just about all types of nonheavy aircra , it us in the back.”
“We kind of have to step up to do the same thing makes us pro cient at our jobs,” said Faulkner.
to keep up with their pace.” With the ability to give pilots and crews in uential training, not
Finally, working at the USAFWS fosters good only within their own squadron but with the rest of the Air Force’s
“Our goal is to try to gure out what’s wrong, time management skills in AFE personnel. ey airframes, one aspect that is o en overlooked is the intelligence
get it xed, and give the equipment back to the not only have to perform the daily work but angle behind the missions of Red Flag.
students as fast as we can, so we can try to make also respond to frequent requests for immediate
their day just a little bit better,” said Edades. service. “We’re proud to support one of the only Air Mobility Command
units at Red Flag 16-3,” said 1st Lt. Robert Wedge, 437th Operations
“Our daily pre ight and post ight checks help “Today, for example, an F-22 pilot ew, and the Group intelligence o cer. “ e expeditionary missions that we are
to nd broken equipment and prevent it from be- zipper blew out on the leg of his G-suit during the serving in, Operation Freedom’s Sentinel and Operation Inherent
ing condemned, which means the member can’t Resolve, largely represent threats from insurgent, non-state actors.
use the piece of equipment for safety reasons,” ight,” said Faulkner. “He was ne, but we had What Red Flag does very well is leading us to plan against full
added Edades. to replace the entire zipper right away before his spectrum threats typical of major combat operations.
next ight. You learn to manage your day and get
Handling such a diverse amount of AFE equip- your work done because you never know what Red Flag grants Intelligence personnel here the same valuable
ment on a daily basis also helps airmen in promo- will come up.” tool that it does pilots: the ability to integrate with multiple plat-
tion testing, when they can expect questions on forms in order to train to accomplish a larger mission.
multiple types of equipment. ey gain a better “Working here de nitely helps airmen learn
recognition of the equipment and awareness of to manage and organize their work better,” said “Getting to integrate with intelligence Airmen from cyber,
the TO requirements. Edades. “If they can keep track of all the equip- space, and intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR)
ment we handle here, they can do the same in backgrounds sharpens our ability to accomplish our primary mis-
“ is diversity of equipment that our younger any shop they’ll work in.” sion, to successfully deliver forces on time and on target in high
personnel deal with here and the experiences they threat environments, said Wedge.
get to have help when they move on to other AFE USAFWS aircrew members can trust that,
shops that are smaller,” said Edades. “ ey have when the day begins in the tting room tomor- With all of these di erent aspects, pilots, crew and intelligence,
the con dence to handle whatever they face.” row, a quali ed AFE specialist will stand ready gaining high level training at the same time, it serves as a great
at their lockers. chance to study and grow in order to accomplish the mission more
“A er working with all the di erent aircra e ectively.
at the Weapons School, our airmen have a leg up “ e AFE section is an amazing team dedi-
on other AFE personnel who may have handled cated to perfecting our life support systems for “ e opportunity to learn and see how we t, and then optimize
only one type of aircra ,” added Edades. the ‘just in case’ moment should it tragically and use those things that we’ve learned in the ght when we’re
arrive,” said Lt. Col. David Stamps, 57 WPSS kicking down the door for real is something that we can’t do
Being able to learn about a wide range of AFE commander. “ e entire Weapons School is ex- anywhere else,” said Wendler.
tremely grateful.”
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