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- [Narrator] The 39th
Operations Support Squadron

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Leads airfield and support operations

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to orchestrate and control US, Turkish,

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and coalition forces operating
at Incirlik Air base.

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- We make sure all the
flights coming in or going out

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are properly manifested,
have the proper flight plans.

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I'll see something different
that maybe another coworker

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didn't see, just brings up
an overall different view

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of how air field management runs.

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- [Narrator] Radar Approach
Control, or RAPCON,

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is responsible for any
aircraft in their air space,

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which also includes non-military flights

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coming from nearby air traffic facilities.

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- We get the aircraft from
really high up in the air space

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up to 28,000 feet and we descend them down

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to safe altitude above any obstacles

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and ensure that they
land safely with tower.

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- [Narrator] Air traffic
control has responsibility

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to assist in directing
the aircraft from their

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parking spots, taxiing
them out to the runway,

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and ensuring they arrive
and depart safely.

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- We have a set job, right?

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We're just supposed to talk to aircraft,

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clear 'em for take off, clear
'em to land, taxi, and park.

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That's pretty much it,
but there's so much more

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that involves, and what makes
air traffic flow easier,

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is the more that you learn about what

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the different agencies bring to the field.

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- [Narrator] Each section of
the 39th OSS relies on the

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others to ensure that
the mission is completed.

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Senior Airman Tommy Wilburn,
Incirlik airbase, Turkey.