Members of the 960th Expeditionary Airborne Air Control Squadron recently returned to their home station at Tinker AFB, Okla., after spending more than a month participating in Operation Coronet Connie in Southwest Asia. The E-3 AWACS unit joined other US airmen to train and fly with airmen from France, Jordan, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and United Kingdom. It was the first time for a USAF E-3 unit to take part in Coronet Connie, which started in 2004 with just two countries. Maj. Tim Hart told the Tinker Take Off that the exercise enabled the E-3 airmen to “reassess our assumptions about how other nations employ various weapon systems.”
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth visited the site of U.S. Space Command’s future home Dec. 12 and endorsed the move to establish the headquarters in Alabama after years of political back and forth.
