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Industry: Email Alert RSS Feed23rd Marine Air Control Squadron watches Fort Bliss skies—oorah!
Army Communicator, Summer, 2005 by Tim Clark
Marine Air Control Squadron 23 is a key element inside the Tactical Network Operations Security Center inside Building 730. The liaison officer running the MACS 23 show in the TNOSC is CW3 Stephen Lynch. Lynch's unit is a combination of Selected Marine Corps Reservists and active duty Instructors and Inspectors (I and I). The unit hails from Buckley Air Force Base in Aurora, Colo., and has primarily been setup at Huecho near MacGregor Range about 30 miles outside Fort Bliss' main post area.
"Gunner" (as he is affectionately known by other Devil Dogs) Lynch says MACS 23's mission is to provide air surveillance and the control of aircraft, and surface to air weapons for anti-air warfare, air space management, and surface to air missile fires in defense of vital areas against theater missile attack in support of a Marine Air Ground Task Force.
Some of the squadron's tasks include managing anti-air warfare assets within a designated sector, detecting, identifying, and classifying all aircraft within an assigned sector, maintaining tracks of identified contacts and providing route control/navigation assistance as required, selecting and assigning weapons to engage and defeat enemy air threats and lastly, controlling the engagement of enemy air threats by increasing interceptors or surface-to-air weapons.
In the photo you can see a tower, the AN/TPS-59, which is at the heart of the MACS 23's world. It is approximately 40 feet tall and has the capability of tracking both air breathing and theater ballistic missile threats either simultaneously or separately. It can 'look' up 100,000 feet and out approximately 300 miles in all directions.
CPT Clark is a graduate of the Infantry Officer Basic Course, Infantry Captains Career Course, Adjutant Captains Career Course, CAS3, and the Military History Instructor Course. He was the PAO for the 359th Signal Brigade at Roving Sands 2005 and now works at the 335th Theater Signal Command in Atlanta as a personnel management officer.
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