It’s often overlooked in the rush to acquire extravagantly sophisticated equipment, but the traditional 24-hour command post is alive and well and still performing vital command, control, and communications functions whether at stateside bases or in the thick of things in Iraq. Its main task is coordinating emergency actions, but one of the primary, day-in-day-out jobs of command post controllers, like the ones in the 506th Air Expeditionary Group at Kirkuk AB, Iraq, is “flight following” all inbound and outbound traffic, says MSgt. Gary Kaczmarek. Controllers work flight details with various base functions to ensure the aircraft spend minimal time on the ground.
The Pentagon fulfilled Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's promise to slash the number of Religious Affiliation Codes used by the military to track the volume of members adhering to different religions and to shape the chaplain corps to support them. The change reduces the number of religions counted for such purposes…