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22 (CANNON AIR FORCE BASE, N.M) Snapped awake by the sound of belt-fed machine gun fire, then-Senior Airman Alaxey Germanovich, a combat controller assigned to the 26th Special Tactics Squadron, surveys the compound he had dozed off in after several sleepless days of combat.
“I look around and I don’t see any of my American teammates,” said Germanovich. “(At that moment I said to myself) I need to find my friends right now.”
Grabbing his helmet and rifle, Germanovich bolted out of the compound and into the fight, where he saw several of the U.S. Army Special Forces Soldiers he was embedded with huddling for cover from behind a small rock.
underrepresented today. it is. in fact, it s one of the defining characteristics of john and john s broader community which is combat control. most people don t realize that these guys each exist and john is a shining example, first medal of honor for the air force in nearly half a century but in fact these guys are the deadliest individuals to walk the battlefield in the history of human war fare. these guys realize these underreported members of the air force and others, they don t get the headlines but they re the ones that bring in the a air power against our enemy. that s right. it s one of the things that defines them. combat controller does what a seal does as far as tactical prowess, shoot, move, communicate, but also dive, jump, all those things are resident in combat control. what they do that nobody else does, they think in four dimensions. they orchestrate air power, like