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8A }IFLRONTLiNE Thursday, March 1, 2001
HUNTER
Hunter air traffic controllers keep watch over airspace
By Sfc.Akilah Clarke
Hunter Public Affairs Office
"Company, attention! Present, arms!"
As the first bars of Reveille echo across Hunter, the resound-
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its lights slicing through the darkness - a perfectly timed visu-
al tribute to the soldiers standing in formation on the ground
below.
Opportunities such as this are just one of the many perks of
being an air traffic controller at Hunter Army Airfield.
Designated as military occupational specialty 93C, the air
traffic controller is responsible for managing aircraft that come
through a specific airspace, according to Staff Sgt. William
Johnson, the training supervisor at Hunter tower.
"We handle the aircraft that come through our airspace- air-
craft stationed here at Hunter, Fort Stewart and any civilian air-
craft that may come through," Johnson explained."
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"As a tower controller, you provide services based upon what
you see," explained Sgt. Calvin Clarke, a Hunter air traffic con-
troller. "The three things that are most important when dealing
with aircraft in a visual flight rules tower are that the pilot can
see the airfield another aircraft, and we can see them."
Clarke went on to explain that once an aircraft enters Hunter
airspace and radio contact is made with the tower, the pilot is
given progressive guidance until the aircraft in on the ground.
In instances when the weather is bad, the responsibility of
guiding aircraft falls solely to controllers that provide ground-
controlled approaches, explained Staff Sgt. Theodore Miller,
GCA facility chief.
"If the weather is bad and the pilot can't see, we use radar
equipment to provide information about his course of flight,"Miller said. "We can filter out everything from fog to heavy rain
- then we can bring the aircraft all the way in until its wheels
touch down on the runway."
Although it is stereotypically cast as a stressful job, air traffic
control has low and peak periods, just like any other job in the
Army, Johnson said.
"There are times when it is strenuous, and there are also times
that it is so slow that you can get bored," he said. "When things
do get busy, you can get to a point when you want to pull your
hair out. It all depends on the person. Some days are good, some
days are bad."
But along with the good, the bad and the ugly, at the end of
the day, all that's left is a feeling of accomplishment, Clarke
said.
"I enjoy my job because it keeps me on my toes," he
explained. "Every day is a different experience, a different test
of the knowledge and skills I've learned since I became an air
traffic controller."
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