Among the special teams of Air Force Security Forces are airmen who make up Fly Away Security Teams. Air Mobility Command completed training its first FAST airmen in January of this year. Those now deployed to Bagram AB, Afghanistan, support aircrews and aircraft that fly around the theater, whether they are transporting foreign nationals or US personnel or cargo to forward operating locations. Bagram has eight FAST members ready to fly every day to “detect, deter, and counter threats to US aircraft,” reports SSgt. Mike Andriacco.
The use of a military counter-drone laser on the southwest border this week—which prompted the Federal Aviation Administration to abruptly close the airspace over El Paso, Texas—will be a “case study” on the complex web of authorities needed to employ such weapons near civilian areas and the consequences of agencies…
