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BALAD AIR BASE, Iraq -- Petty Officer 1st Class Nels Thorsen, a Joint Airborne Battle Staff mission controller from 777th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron, discusses the mission of the Joint Airborne Communications System on a C-130 Hercules with Lt. Gen. Gary North, Combined Forces Air Component Commander, here, Nov. 16. The JACS is an airborne command and control and communication station that provides communications relay improving battlefield awareness for ground convoy forces. Petty Officer Thorsen is a U.S. Navy Individual Augmentee from the Naval Air Technical Training Center in Pensacola, Fla. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Joshua Garcia)

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