The 1970 competition was the first to include competitive events for the combat controllers including a physical fitness test, marksmanship, and a four-mile (6 km) orienteering course.

"121, vector to intercept new bogey one, heading zero-five-zero, angels forty," the combat controller aboard a different E-2C Hawkeye ordered.

Numerous programs attempt to enhance the technology of equipment provided to the combat controllers and other special forces.

I require authentication before assigning a combat controller.

"Group One, this is Control," came the scratchy message from the air combat controllers aboard the Brezhnev.

Chief Travis is a combat controller who deployed to Port-au-Prince just 30 hours after the earthquake.

Steve Toros is the Blitz Team's manager (but also serves as an inventor and occasionally a combat controller in Jamie's place), whose children are Leena and Leon Toros.

The combat controller called for air support, and two A-10 Warthogs, heavily armored jets designed to attack tanks from low altitudes, were now circling overhead.

But the combat controller was amazed at how cool the soldiers - most of them in their late 20's and early 30's - seemed throughout the 90-minute ordeal.

He was one of about 100 combat controllers, weathermen and search-and-rescue specialists then operating in Afghanistan, officials said.