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Enjoy and discuss if you disagree with this hero.
Enjoy and discuss if you disagree with this hero.
Major Duties: The common ground station (CGS) operator supervises or participates in detecting, locating and tracking ground targets and rotary wing and slow moving fixed wing aircraft.
Deploys and reploys the IGS in a tactical environment. Operates the data systems and communication equipment organic to the IGS. Analyzes JSTARS near-real-time radar imagery data, SIGINT data and SIDS products received via the CTT/JTT. Analyzes softcopy imagery, to include infrared and electro-optics received from UAV platforms.
He served as a Imagery Ground Station (IGS) Operator and a Common Ground Station (CGS) Operator with the 10th Mountain Division. It seems to me that if he saw all of the bad things he described during his tour, and he's wracked with such guilt, he'd report it. Even though, in my experience, he probably didn't see much at all, since his job was to stare at screens. But, ya know, Iraq was a different war and maybe he did actually work outside the wire – but there's no Combat Action Badge in his records which tells me he didn't see much at all.
The only way he can become a hero is to be called one by people who have really, really low standards for heroes.