Senior Airman Pedro Rodriguez, a combat controller with the 22nd Special Tactics Squadron out of Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Wash., lands on the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico after jumping 13,000 feet from a HC-130J Combat King II. A combat controller's mission is to deploy undetected into combat and hostile environments to conduct special reconnaissance, establish assault zones or airfields, while simultaneously conducting air traffic control, fire support, command, control, and communications and forward air control.

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