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Joint terminal attack controllers from the 2nd Air Support Operations Squadron and NATO partners work through a nighttime scenario as part of exercise Serpentex 16 March 15 in Corsica, France. Serpentex is an annual French-led exercise that is designed to enhance NATO operations and training between allies and partners. Multiple NATO countries worked together throughout the exercise in order to better learn each other’s capabilities and improve in areas where fellow JTACs would be able to help.

Darkness falls, TACPs train

Photos by Staff Sgt. Sara Keller
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Journey to become joint terminal attack controller

by Staff Sgt. Sara Keller 86th Airlift Wing Public Affairs

SOLENZARA, Corsica — Senior Airman Tormod Lillekroken makes a joke and flashes a smile to his teammate next to him as his eyes dart from the map in his hand to an old car about 500 meters in the distance. This is his target, and he’s attempting to pinpoint its exact location. Shielded by bushes on a high hill, he peeks through openings in the leaves to gather enough information to describe it to a pilot he will soon be responsible for directing.

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