MSgt. Anthony Roy, an instructor flight engineer with the 43rd Electronic Combat Squadron at Davis-Monthan AFB, Ariz., flew his 200th combat sortie recently during deployment to Southwest Asia, amassing 1,500 combat flying hours. Roy crosstrained from aircraft maintenance six years ago. The 43rd ECS flies the EC-130H Compass Call, one of USAF’s high-demand, low-density systems. (USAF report by SSgt. Tia Schroeder)
When Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Air Force Gen. Dan Caine described the 150 aircraft used in Operation Absolute Resolve, the mission to capture Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, he referenced many by name, including the F-35 and F-22 fighters and B-1 bomber. Not specified, however, were “remotely piloted drones,” among them a secretive aircraft spotted and photographed returning to Puerto…
