Air Force Tech. Sgt. Andrea Patterson, one of three battlefield weatherman assigned to Forward Operating Base Kalsu south of Baghdad, Iraq, performs her daily maintenance routine on a tactical meteorological operating system (TMOS), June 23. Patterson, and her fellow Air Force weather forecasters, provide 24 hour a day weather updates to the various U. S. Army 3rd Infantry Division's operations occurring in the Triangle of Death area. The instantaneous weather information the battlefield weathermen are able to provide are critical to the success, and to the safety of the 3rd ID's ground a
Air Force Tech. Sgt. Andrea Patterson, one of three battlefield weatherman assigned to Forward Operating Base Kalsu south of Baghdad, Iraq, performs her daily maintenance routine on a tactical meteorological operating system (TMOS), June 23. Patterson, and her fellow Air Force weather forecasters, provide 24 hour a day weather updates to the various U. S. Army 3rd Infantry Division's operations occurring in the Triangle of Death area. The instantaneous weather information the battlefield weathermen are able to provide are critical to the success, and to the safety of the 3rd ID's ground and aviation operations. Though Patterson is attached to the 3rd ID she officially falls under the recently formed 3rd Expeditionary Weather Squadron headquartered on Camp Victory, Baghdad, Iraq. She is deployed from Detachment 6, 7th Weather Squadron, Wiesbaden, Germany.
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