Airman 1st Class Brian Hernandez sat comfortably inside a trailer in a remote area of FE Warren Air Force Base, Wyo. March 22. His right hand controlled a standard mouse, his left, an ordinary keyboard.
To the casual observer, he might as well have been shuffling through a virtual deck of solitaire cards.
In truth, however, he was commanding up to five secure communications satellites, worth billions of dollars, simultaneously, as USStrategic Command monitors watched and listened intently.
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