TINKER AIR FORCE BASE, Okla. —
The 552nd Air Management Wing accomplished a climate flush train which examined E-3G Sentry pilots, related air crews, maintainers, assist squadrons and finally demonstrated their potential to react to a climate emergency at Tinker Air Power Base, March 21.
Fourteen plane had been generated to be dispersed or relocated in the course of the train, with seven plane queueing on the runway at one time.
“Now we have to take care of readiness always,” stated Col. Kelley Stevens, 552nd Upkeep Group commander. “That is Oklahoma and the climate can flip extreme rapidly; we’d like to have the ability to generate our plane to evacuate to guard them. It is not simply the maintainers who’re making the mission occur in assist of our nation’s protection; it’s a group effort–the aircrew and all of the assist employees. We could not do it with out everybody working as a group.”
The significance of the climate flush train for the 552nd ACW lay in the truth that Tinker is not any stranger to extreme climate. The time period, “Twister Alley,” of which Oklahoma is part, was really coined in 1952 by the identical Air Power meteorologists who initially made the primary profitable twister forecast at Tinker AFB in 1948, Main Ernest Fawbush and Capt. Robert Miller.
“I can not say sufficient about our groups of Airmen who’re working holidays, weekends and across the clock to maintain these growing older plane within the struggle,” stated Stevens. “Our Airmen are amazing–smart, gifted, and resourceful in protecting the AWACS flying regardless of the various sustainment challenges.”
In keeping with Col. Wayne Frost, 552nd Operations Group commander, fixed coaching ensures Airmen are prepared to supply assist with command, management, and communications to multi-domain operations worldwide.
“I could not be prouder of the trouble and success proven at the moment by the Airmen of the 552 Air Management Wing,” stated Col. Keven Coyle, 552nd ACW commander. “Speedy technology of airpower doesn’t simply occur with out an immense quantity of experience, expertise, sacrifice, and energy on behalf of the 552nd ACW and our companions within the 72nd Air Base Wing right here at Tinker AFB. I’m beaming on the wonderful show of tenacity and grit our airmen present each day to generate fight airpower on behalf of the USAF and our nation.”
The E-3G Sentry is an AWACS plane with an built-in command and management battle administration (C2BM), surveillance, airborne shifting goal indicator, goal detection, identification, datalink, and monitoring platform. The U.S. Air Power doesn’t go to conflict with out capabilities supplied by the E-3G and her Airmen.
