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Test, train, maintain: Combat ready!

February 25, 2016 | Staff Reporters

Hurlburt Field, Fla. — One unit on Hurlburt Field is responsible for training all weather airmen who are preparing to deploy with the skills to train and maintain existing weather systems all across the world and test and validate emerging weather-sensing technologies.

Senior Airman Jonathan Melendez, a weather systems technician with the 2nd Combat Weather Systems Squadron, gives a pre-deployment briefing to weather airmen at Hurlburt Field, Fla., July 21, 2015. The 2 CWSS is the Air Force’s primary facility to test and evaluate new and existing tactical- and fixed-weather systems, train airmen on tactical systems prior to deployment and provide manpower for the Weather Systems Support Cadre.

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