Staff Sgt. Wade Smith, a tactical air control party joint terminal attack controller from the 13th Air Support Operations Squadron looks over the range and prepares to give coordinates for a strike from F-18 Super Hornets at a range outside of Nags Head, March 6, 2017. TACPs from the 13th ASOS, stationed at Fort Carson, Colo., average 180 days annually on the road in support of exercise and contingency operations.

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