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It is inappropriate that the
air controller stayed away from his position for such a long time at a time of day when regular air traffic volume is typically high, the ministry said.
He served on the front line in Afghanistan at Christmas 2007 as a Forward
Air Controller. He is due back in the new year.
He served for 10 weeks in the country as a forward
air controller during 2007-08 directing jets dropping bombs on Taliban positions in Helmand province.
Name of the deputy
air controller in Smolensk: Viktor Anatolievich Ryzhenko.
The inquest previously heard that grid co-ordinates communicated between an
air controller and a US weapons officer "did not s marry up"before the bomb was dropped, killing Privates Aaron McClure, 19, Robert Foster, 19, and John Thrumble, 21.
Sergeant Mark Perren, a forward
air controller, passed on the order to the US aircraft.
Cpl Mather decided to become a Forward
Air Controller after seeing the Joint Tactical
Air Controllers and the Fire Support Teams on an exercise in Arizona and describes it as by far the greatest and most challenging job he has done in the Armed Forces.--Courtesy MoD
Vietnam above the treetops; a forward
air controller reports.
"This is especially useful when the
air controller and other observers do not have line-of-sight to the target and therefore cannot determine its location by lasing," said a Rand Corp.