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FORT BRAGG, NC - U.S. Air Force Tactical Air Control Party Airmen from the 15th Air Support Operations Squadron, 93rd Air Ground Operations Wing, participated in Scarlet Dragon Oasis 2023, a data-centric and Artificial Intelligence joint exercise, at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, Jan. 23 – Feb. 3, 2023.
Scarlet Dragon focused on a strategic data-focused view of war fighting that encapsulates Gen. Charles Brown’s Agile Combat Employment plan, utilizing all of the United States armed forces – enhancing joint all-domain command and control (C2) with a unified network powered by AI.
The 15th ASOS was employed as a TACP strike element and agile combat integration team (ACIT), to provide expert targeting and a forward C2 capability to the Joint Force commander.
“We are providing targeting capabilities for the Air Force,” said 1st Lt. Benjamin Daniels, 15th ASOS TACP officer team leader of the innovation team. “We provide persistent ISR (intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance) or weather targeting capability while acting as an ACIT, communicating information to the appropriate echelon for the decision makers and strikers to hit the targets they can’t see.”
TACP Airmen are able to assist in shaping, seizing and dominating the playing field by providing detailed information about a target in multiple domains.
“We’re working together, coordinating with corps fires to support different correlations of target enemy air defenses, enemy structures and enemy C2 networks,” said Master Sgt. Shae Martin, 818 Operations Support Squadron non commissioned officer in charge of weapons and tactics. “We’re pretty much a human intelligence arm of the air component commander, affecting his order of battle for (strike coordination and reconnaissance) or air interdiction.”
The information collected by the TACPs is not only being passed to the air component commander, but to the Army’s order of battle as well; joining branches together for the fight.
“We’re pushing the enemy back on the defensive side,” Daniels said. “Once we do that, we can all come together and finish the fight.”
Scarlet Dragon enabled Airmen, Marines, sailors and soldiers to utilize each other’s assets to provide an enhanced fighting capability, strengthening combined teams at every echelon of the joint force.
“TACP has been and will always be the premiere precision strike element within the Air Force for joint forces, whether that be Army, Navy, the Marine Corps and Space Force,” Martin said. “The capabilities we bring to the fight for information exchange will always be enacted the same way it has been in the past into the future. How we do our job will change, but we will still be the primary force getting precision guided weapons on the ground where they need to be and when they need to be there.”
| Date Taken: | 03.01.2023 |
| Date Posted: | 03.01.2023 15:26 |
| Story ID: | 439506 |
| Location: | FORT BRAGG, NORTH CAROLINA, US |
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