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AFB, Hawaii, has the newest of the Air Force’s five Distributed Ground Stations, in which intelligence imagery analysts interpret images taken by unmanned aerial vehicles or other intelligence-surveillance-reconnaissance assets. “The reachback capability that we represent is amazing,” TSgt. Michael Henry told USAF journalist TSgt. Chris Vadnais. (Read our 2004 article on Operation Reachback.)
An important U.S. Air Force E-3 Sentry AWACS command and control plane was among the aircraft damaged in a March 27 Iranian missile and drone attack on Prince Sultan Air Base, Saudi Arabia, people familiar with the matter told Air & Space Forces Magazine.