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)
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…
