274th Close Air Support Training
Senior Airman Joel Ramirez moves towards the objective training area during an exercise March 14, 2015, at Fort Drum, N.Y. Thirty Airmen from the New York Air National Guard’s 274th Air Support Operations Squadron (ASOS), based at Hancock Field Air National Guard Base trained on close air support (CAS) as well as training for the first time with two CH-47F Chinook helicopters from Company B, 3rd Battalion, 126th Aviation based in Rochester. The 274th mission is to advise commanders on how to best utilize U.S. and NATO assets for CAS. Ramirez is a tactical air control party (TACP) Airman. (New York Air National Guard photo/Master Sgt. Eric Miller)