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  • Teamwork and Communication

    Operational Weather Squadrons and Weather Flights work as a team to accomplish the same mission - provide the best possible environmental situational awareness to the warfighter. Their perspectives and roles, however, are significantly different. The OWS forecaster deals more with meteorological

  • Training for deployed operations

    The Global War On Terror has changed the way the United States fights. Today, it is more common to have Airmen ride in a convoy and, in some instances, run those convoys. Battlefield Airmen providing weather support to the Army go where the Army goes, and sometimes, a convoy is all an Airman has to

  • Balad combat weather flight ensures safe traveling

    When Staff Sgt. James Brown steps out for the first time during his day here, he scans the sky. He already knows what type of day he'll have at work before he steps into his office because weather is his business. The combat weather forecasters assigned to the 332nd Expeditionary Operations Support

  • Weather officer accepts O'Malley award during Space Warfare Symposium

    The chief of Cheyenne Mountain Operations Center Weather Operations received the General Jerome F. O'Malley Distinguished Space Leadership Award for 2006. Nearly 400 people rose to their feet to applaud 2nd Lt. Randall S. Claar, 21st Operations Support Squadron, as he accepted the award during an

  • Weather info delivered to warfighter faster with integration

    Net-centric weather integration is one of the many important initiatives being tested during the Joint Expeditionary Force Experiment 2006 at Nellis Air Force Base, Nev. This integration, sponsored by the Air Force Weather Agency, demonstrates the capability to provide critical, time-sensitive

  • Weather technician trains observers at Afghan outpost

    A battlefield weather Airman assigned to work with Army aviation units recently spent two days training members of the Panjshir Provincial Reconstruction Team to report weather observations. Senior Airman Nathan Fried of the 20th Expeditionary Air Support and Operations Squadron at Bagram Air Base

  • Hurricane Hunters fly Atlantic winter storm

    Hurricane Hunters from here flew toward an impending winter storm Feb. 13. Forecasters expected more snow for the northeastern seaboard the next day. Better known for pinpointing tropical storms and hurricanes, Air Force Reserve Command's 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron WC-130J aircraft also

  • Schriever Airmen assist during satellite program move

    The 6th Space Operations Squadron Airmen here are assisting with satellite control authority of the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program, augmenting National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration specialists who deployed to Schriever Jan. 29 from their facilities in Suitland, Md. NOAA

  • Weather officer to compete in Antarctic Marathon

    Running a marathon would be enough of a challenge for most people, but an Air Force weather officer here wants to take things to the next level by competing in a marathon in Antarctica. Maj. Michael Mills of the Headquarters Air Force Weather Plans and Requirement Division is running 160 miles a