30 Group visits CONG

Members of the Colorado Thirty Group tours Colorado National Guard facilities across the state and learned about some of the Colorado National Guard’s key missions Jan. 18, 2012. The group travelled by Colorado Army National Guard UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters to visit Colorado Air National Guardsmen from the 137th Space Warning Squadron in Greeley, Colo., and the 140th Operations Support Squadron’s Airburst Range on Fort Carson, Colo., where the civilians learned of the key missions and skills the Colorado Guard provides the state and nation. At Fort Carson, civic leaders then observed a demonstration of this capability when active duty Air Force joint tactical air controllers on the ground provided targeting guidance and command authority for F-16 pilots in the skies above to drop simulated ordnance on specific training targets. (Official Air National Guard photo by Master Sgt. Cheresa D. Theiral)