Darkness falls, TACPs train
Sgt. Lane Starling, 1st Regiment, Royal Canadian Horse Artillery joint terminal attack controller, scans his area and speaks to a pilot as part of a night operations training scenario during exercise Serpentex ‘16 March 15, 2016, in Corsica, France. Training at night prepares JTACs to provide terminal control of both air and surfaced based fires at the tactical level in a more challenging setting. Approximately 215 Airmen, including JTACs from the 2nd Air Support Operations Squadron, from Vilseck, Germany, participated in the annual exercise held at NATO’s tactical training center and the French air force’s Air Base 126 Solenzara, France. (U.S. Air Force/Staff Sgt. Sara Keller)