Not unlike the other men and women in the Combined Air and Space Operations Center, combat coders are often tethered to their computers — their faces lit with a pixilated glow, fingertips maneuvering above matte-black keyboards, ‘click-clacking’ rows of keys amidst the whir of computer fans.
However, their sentences may look bizarre to most.
These Airmen write computer code. They write lines upon lines of code actually — by the thousands — and structure those lines of code into applications that servicemembers use both in the CAOC and AOR-wide.
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