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March 16, 2022
31st OSS Airmen train on contingency response procedures

Senior Airman John Kendall, 31st Operations Support Squadron air traffic controller, places a light down on the flightline during a training session at Aviano Air Base, Italy, March 10, 2022. The members used a Phantom AZL-15 lighting kit to simulate landing zones for a variety of aircraft
Aug. 16, 2017
Airfield management, dirt boys: Manage a concrete weapon

In the center of Aviano Air Base sits the most important 8,539-foot stretch of concrete south of the Alps -- the flightline.
June 23, 2016
SERE specialists teach pilots to 'return with honor'

Warning lights flash across the instrument panel as the engine sputters – the plane is going down. A pilot, forced to eject, lands in an ocean or in hostile territory. What now? The 31st Operations Support Squadron survival, evasion, resistance and escape specialists do everything they can to

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