Airborne Command

ACE Airborne Command Element (the commander s representative in the AWACS)... 

The Combined Forces Air Component (CFAC) was tasked with exercising tactical control of all OPC aircraft operating in the Tactical Area of Responsibility (TAOR) and operational control over Air Force aircraft. The CFAC commander exercised daily control of the OPC flight mission through a Director of Operations (CFAC/DO), as well as a ground-based Mission Director at the Combined Task Force (CTF) headquarters in Incirlik and an Airborne Command Element (ACE) aboard the AWACS. 

The Airborne Command Element (ACE) flies in the AWACS and is the commander s representative in the air, armed with up-to-the-minute situational information to make time-critical decisions. The ACE monitors all air operations and is in direct contact with the Mission Director located in the ground command post. He must also interact with the AWACS crew to identify reported unidentified aircraft. 

To facilitate communication and coordination, the SD s console was physically located in the pit right between the MCC and the ACE (Airborne Command Element). Through internal radio nets, the SD synchronized the work of the weapons section with that of the surveillance section. He also monitored and coordinated the actions of his weapons directors to meet the demands of both the ACE and MCC. 

The AWACS typically takes off from Incirlik AFB approximately two hours before the first air refueling and fighter aircraft. Once the AWACS is airborne, the systems of the AWACS are brought on line, and a Joint Tactical Information Distribution System (JTIDS ) link is established with a Turkish Sector Operations Center (radar site). After the JTTDS Unk is confirmed, the CFAC airborne command element (ACE) initiates the planned launch sequence for the rest of the force. Normally, within a one-hour period, tanker and fighter aircraft take off and proceed to the TAOR in a carefully orchestrated flow. Fighters may not cross the political border into Iraq without AWACS coverage. 

NEACP National Emergency Airborne Command Post... 

He then related his experience at Fort Bragg, where he monitored a test conducted with members of the XVIII Airborne Corps Artillery I was there to observe what was going on and also to brief the CG, XVIII Airborne Corps. I went to the site with the project officer and a major it was early and it was cold. I was asked if I wanted some hot coffee, which I did. I was given the coffee and apparently it had LSD in it - they told me, later, it had a dose of 200 micrograms of LSD. When he had to brief the Corps Commander, who was a very rough customer, he had a very difficult time. Asked if he would have voluntarily taken LSD at that time, he responded in the negative. ... 

Command ship Mount Whitney - 700 sailors, 400 troops. IRAQ 82nd Airborne 3rd Infantry Division 4th Infantry Division 101st Airborne Division 173rd Airborne Brigade V Corps 1st Armored Division - 250,000 soldiers. I Marine Expeditionary Force. KUWAIT Elements of the 101st Airborne Division - about... 

Lead elements are now only 2-3 hr from take-off. As suggested by the sleep management system software, commanders elect to implement the sleep-induc-tion/rapid-reawakening system for all soldiers once they are airborne. This consists of two pills, orally administered, given sequentially. The first, a sleep inducer, is administered prior to the sleep period to induce sleep. The second, an antidote to the sleep inducer, is administered at the end of the sleep interval to restore full alertness and cognitive readiness. Once airborne, soldiers take their sleep inducer. Light levels, noise, and commotion are kept to a minimum during the sleep period. After 6.5 hr of sleep, the soldiers are awakened. Immediately,... 

Ruetter, S.A., R.J. Mioduszewski, and S.A. Thomson. 2000. Evaluation of Airborne Exposure Limits for VX Worker and General Population Exposure Criteria. ECBC-TR-074. Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md. Edgewood Chemical Center, U.S. Army Soldier and Biological Chemical Command. 

NOTE AEL, airborne exposure limit DA, Department of the Army DDESB, Department of Defense Explosives Safety Board and MACOM, major Army command. 

Weimer, J.T., B.P. McNamara, E.J. Owens, J.G. Cooper, and A. Van de Wal. 1979. Proposed Revision of Limits for Human Exposure to GB Vapor in Nonmihtary Operations Based on One-Year Exposures of Laboratory Animals to Low Airborne Concentrations. ARCSL-TR-78056. U.S. Army Armament Research and Development Command, Chemical Systems Laboratory, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Edgewood, Md. 

The army was already examining collective protection for some military vehicles and, in particular, the missile-control vans. The need for collective protection for vans and vehicles used for command posts, fire direction, rest and relief shelters, and medical aid stations resulted in the standardization of the M14 Collective Protection Equipment in 1970. This equipment was designed to protect occupants of the M291A2 and M292 series of vans against airborne toxic agents.161... 

The Combined Forces Air Component (CFAC) Commander was responsible for coordinating the employment of all air operations to accomplish the OPC mission. He was delegated operational control of the Airborne Warning and Control System... 

Airborne Photographic Equipment, Air Force Systems Command, Wright Patterson AFB, Ohio, Reconnaissance Application Branch Report, 1964. 

As the societal control culture moved towards diffusion, esca lation and innovation, so did the warning system become more formalized and bureaucratized. Shortly before August Bank Holiday, 1964, the Home Office Airborne Police Scheme to fly reinforcements in RAF Transport Command, was publicized. A local paper, in a report headed Town Is Ready For All Comers announced that besides elaborate pohce preparations, special arrangements had been made to open the Town Hall courtroom over the weekend. (Hostings and St Leonards Observer, 1 April 1965). These were not only warnings but stage setting ceremonies there was no doubt that the show would take place, one just had to make sure that the folk devils and their denouncers would have the appropriate arenas for their performance. 

On arrival, all medical staff should identily the officer in charge of the incident— the incident commander (this will usually be a senior fire or police officer), the incident command centre if it is already set up. The presence of each worker and any special skills, equipment or knowledge that they have can then be logged. Preparation should be made for the use of PPE at this time (see Chap. 4). Respiratory protection is the most important aspect of this and respirators should be kept close by to allow rapid domiing if the situation deteriorates and there is immediate airborne contamination (e.g. from a change in wind direction). 

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