When they are not deployed, they are preparing and training to deploy, and that is what life is like in a combat communications squadron. In late August, the 53rd Combat Communications Squadron conducted a large scale exercise that not only helped prepare its Airmen for deployment, but will have a big impact in the combat communications community, as well as Air Force Space Command.
This exercise helped validate the new employment standards for all combat communications capabilities in support of Air and Space Expeditionary Forces, as well as a new more modular deployable package of personnel and equipment.
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