Gaughan
on CCT: “The Combat
Control Team is a branch of the Special Forces of the military.
They’re the guys that have to sit on the ground and do the
hard work. They’re the guys that get there and get buried
into a place and stay there for awhile. They’re the guys you
don’t get to hear about or talk about much. Out here at
Nellis Air Force Base with the A-10 school that we do so much with,
there are a couple of those guys that teach at the A-10 school. So
we’ve had a chance to meet a couple of those guys. They’re a pretty
strange, odd group of men but they’re fun to hang out with.
They’re another branch of the military that we
don’t get to hear much about that we want to make shout out
to.”
Air
Force Special Operations fighter dies battling insurgents;
Senior
Airman Adam Servais, an Onalaska native and a member of Air Force
Special Operations, was killed Saturday in Afghanistan, family members
said.
Servais,
23, died along with two Afghan soldiers in the southern Uruzgan
province during a fight with more than 100 insurgents, according to a
NATO statement. He joined the Air Force in 2002 and was a combat
controller in its elite special operations command. Servais was assigned
to the Air Force's 16th Operations Group located at Hurlburt Field,
Fla. The group is the Air Force's largest special operations unit,
"with 7,000 highly trained military professionals who stand ready to
conduct special operations missions at a moment's notice," according to
a Hurlburt Field fact sheet.
The
group conducts unconventional warfare, counterinsurgency and
psychological operations, the fact sheet states.
The troops in
Uruzgan are part of a U.S. team training the fledgling Afghan National
Army. About 22,000 U.S. troops are in Afghanistan, along with 20,000
NATO-led troops.
Servais'
father, Peter Servais, said of his son in a written statement: "He was
proud of what he accomplished in the Air Force and proud of what he was
doing. He enjoyed the team that he trained with, and he didn't need
recognition, he didn't want to be a big deal."…
Craftsman
Truck Series Driver, Brendan Gaughan, will be
sporting the CCT Flash on the tailgate of his #77 truck in the Bristol,
TN, race on Wednesday, 23 August 2006. Brendan is friends
with Phil Freeman and often goes to the Nellis Range with
him. Brendan offered to put Adam's picture or In Memory of
Adam, on his truck for this race, but we were not able to coordinate
with Adam's family in time. In any case, let’s root
for Brendan tomorrow -- he'll also be wearing a CCT hat when not in his
helmet.
In March of 2007 Brendan was unanimously voted in as an
Associate Life Member of the Combat Control Association.
For
more information about Brendan
and Combat Control, Phil Freeman sent the following Power Point
Presentation. You can view it or download it to your own
computer. Just click on the # 77 to the right...
Special thanks to
both Brendan and Phil!
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