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  • Faces of the Defender: Combat Systems Officer

    U.S. Air Force 1st Lt. Daniel Wallace, a mobility combat systems officer with the 183rd Wing, Illinois Air National Guard, describes the job of a combat systems officer in an interview recorded in Peoria, Ill., April 23, 2019. Air Force combat systems officers serve as mission commanders for

  • Faces of the Defender: Avionics

    All flight systems are normal in the skies miles above the Earth, when suddenly all that’s in front of the aircrew are black screens and dead gauges. Complete, catastrophic instrument failure. The aircrew of a C-130H Hercules is now cruising at 25,000 feet with no navigation, no instruments, no