Combat 3 REPACK
Amber Monton
During the battle of Hue during the Vietnam war US troops trying to retake the city, not having been trained in urban combat, resorted to using tactics for assaulting buildings and clearing rooms they learned from watching Combat!, reportedly to great effect.[citation needed]
BACKGROUND
The 1st Combat Camera Squadron (1 CTCS) is a tenant unit at Joint Base Charleston. It is the sole active-duty Combat Camera unit in the Air Force. The squadron is aligned under the Air Force Public Affairs Agency (AFPAA), a Field Operating Agency of the Secretary of the Air Force Office of Public Affairs headquartered at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, Texas.
Combat Camera (COMCAM) deploys combat-ready teams worldwide providing Department of Defense and Air Force leaders with a directed imagery capability to support strategic, operational, and tactical requirements to shape the information environment during joint exercises, humanitarian and disaster response, and contingency or crisis operations. As the primary suppliers of operational imagery to support battlefield information superiority, COMCAM teams are combat trained and equipped, quickly deployable and able to operate in austere and hostile environments. COMCAM professionals train to provide aerial and ground imagery highlighting coordinated actions, messages, and images in support of national or military objectives. Requirements for COMCAM include imagery intended to counter misinformation, legal and evidentiary documentation such as sensitive site exploitation, imagery for battlefield and environmental assessments, Military Information Support Operations (MISO) and Civil Affairs support, as well as media requirements and historical documentation. In addition, COMCAM assets provide the ability to acquire, edit and transmit sensitive imagery through secure systems for direct dissemination to senior leaders and product development.
Military and combat photography has a long and storied history that began with early images of the American Civil War commissioned by President Lincoln and captured by Mathew Brady and other photographers. In World War I, American aerial photographers flew more than 35,000 hours over enemy lines and captured over 18,000 images of enemy positions, from which 585,000 prints were made by photographic sections attached to observation groups.
Whenever, wherever there is a worldwide crisis or disaster, a contingency or wartime operation, or a military exercise involving Air Force, joint or multinational services, the highly skilled professional men and women of the 1st Combat Camera Squadron are capturing the imagery necessary to support operational needs, combat misinformation and disinformation, and provide invaluable visual historical records. By its motto "Global Reach...Global Images," 1 CTCS is your eyes to the world.
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The CES was developed to be easily administered and scored and is useful in both research and clinical settings. The total CES score (ranging from 0 - 41) is calculated by using a sum of weighted scores, which can be classified into one of five categories of combat exposure ranging from "light" to "heavy." Scoring instructions are included with the measure.
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A 354th Expeditionary Fighter Squadron A-10C Thunderbolt II aircraft takes off in front of two 321st Special Tactics Squadron combat controllers during an austere landing training exercise at Nowe Miasto, Poland, July 20, 2015. The 321st STS combat controllers ground air traffic control for the A-10 pilots during the exercise. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Luke Kitterman)
Mission
Air Force Special Operations Command's combat controllers are battlefield Airmen assigned to special tactics squadrons. They are trained special operations forces and certified FAA air traffic controllers. The mission of a combat controller is to deploy, undetected, into combat and hostile environments to establish assault zones or airfields, while simultaneously conducting air traffic control, fire support, command and control, direct action, counter-terrorism, foreign internal defense, humanitarian assistance and special reconnaissance in the joint arena.
Their motto, "First There," reaffirms the combat controller's commitment to undertaking the most dangerous missions behind enemy lines by leading the way for other forces to follow.
Training
Combat controllers are among the most highly trained personnel in the U.S. military. They maintain air traffic control qualification skills throughout their careers; many qualify and maintain currency in joint terminal attack control procedures, in addition to other special operations skills like infiltration skills and combat diver and demolition qualifications.
Their 35-week training and unique mission skills earn them the right to wear the scarlet beret.
Tech. Sgt. Curtis Hinkley, a 6th Combat Training Squadron, Detachment 2 instructor, provides instruction to an Estonian tactical air control party (TACP) student enrolled in the Joint Terminal Attack Controller Qualification Course (JTACQC), hosted by the 137th Combat Training Flight (137th CTF) from Will Rogers Air National Guard Base in Oklahoma City, at Razorback Range near Fort Smith, Ark., March 9, 2021. The Estonian TACP is the first to complete the Air Combat Command JTACQC from a NATO Partner Nation since the 137th CTF began welcoming international students. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Senior Master Sgt. Andrew M. LaMoreaux)
A U.S. Air Force combat controller prepares to contact the special tactics operation center by radio while conducting a drop zone survey in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Jan. 24, 2010, during Operation Unified Response. (U.S. Air Force photo/Master Sgt. Jeremy Lock)
Tasked to plan and control this training, the 414th Combat Training Squadron's mission is to maximize the combat readiness, capability and survivability of participating units by providing realistic, multi-domain training in a combined air, ground, space and electronic threat environment while providing opportunity for a free exchange of ideas between forces.
Aircraft and personnel deploy to Nellis for RED FLAG under the Air Expeditionary Force concept and make up the exercise's "Blue" forces. By working together, these Blue forces are able to utilize their diverse capabilities and weapons systems to execute specific missions, such as offensive counter air, suppression of enemy air defense, combat search and rescue, dynamic targeting, and defensive counter air. These forces use various tactics to attack NTTR targets such as mock airfields, vehicle convoys, tanks, parked aircraft, bunkered defensive positions, missile sites, and conduct personnel recovery efforts. These targets are defended by a variety of simulated "Red" force ground and air threats to give participant aircrews the most realistic combat training possible.
Combat Related Special Compensation (CRSC) is a program that was created for disability and non-disability military retirees with combat-related disabilities. It is a tax-free entitlement that you will be paid each month along with any retired pay you may already be receiving.
NSA is part of the U.S. Department of Defense serving as a combat support agency. Supporting our military service members around the world is one of the most important things that we do. NSA analysts, linguists, engineers and other personnel deploy to Afghanistan and other hostile areas to provide actionable SIGINT and cybersecurity support to warfighters on the front lines.
Military and combat photography has a long and storied history that began with early images of the American Civil War commissioned by President Lincoln. In World War I, American aerial photographers flew more than 35,000 hours over enemy lines and captured over 18,000 images of enemy positions, from which 585,000 prints were made by photographic sections attached to observation groups. A more organized visual communication capability emerged in World War II with the activation of the First Motion Picture Unit in Culver City, California, in July 1942 from which several Army Air Force Combat Camera units were born. The 1 CTCS can trace its lineage to the 1st Army Air Forces Combat Camera Unit which was constituted on Feb. 4, 1943. The unit was deactivated, re-designated and activated several times throughout the 1940s. The 1st Combat Camera unit stood up on Sept. 2, 1950, at Bolling Air Force Base, Washington, D.C. The unit was subsequently moved to Alexandria, Virginia, in January 1951 and re-designated the 1st Photographic Squadron on April 16, 1951. The unit was again deactivated on June 8, 1954.
Whenever, wherever there is a worldwide crisis or disaster, a contingency or wartime operation or a military exercise involving Air Force, joint or multinational services, the highly skilled professional men and women of the 1st CTCS are capturing the imagery necessary to support operational needs, combat misinformation and disinformation, and provide invaluable visual historical records. Since the 1970s, 1 CTCS missions around the world include involvement in Vietnam, Panama, Grenada, the Jonestown massacre recovery in Guyana; humanitarian aid in Somalia; Desert Storm and Desert Shield in Kuwait, Iraq and Saudi Arabia; peacekeeping and Civil Affairs efforts in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, and Kosovo; combat operations in Southwest Asia supporting Operations Iraqi Freedom, Enduring Freedom, Inherent Resolve, Resolute Support and Freedom's Sentinel in Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria; coverage of DoD's humanitarian assistance in the aftermath of Hurricanes Katrina, Rita, Harvey, Maria and Michael, earthquakes and tsunamis in the Indian Ocean, Japan, Pakistan, and Haiti, the Air Force's largest non-combatant evacuation in history of 124,000 people from Hamid Karzai International Airport, Afghanistan; and ongoing aerial coverage of Bomber Task Force missions around the world.
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