Imagery Analyst / Common Ground Station Operator

96D exploited overhead imagery (U-2, satellite, later UAS); 96H ran the JSTARS Common Ground Station — the truck full of screens that watched Moving Target Indicator radar paint enemy convoys in real time.

The Story

96H was barely a decade old when it died — stood up to crew the new JSTARS ground stations in the mid-1990s, killed by reorganization before its first soldiers hit retirement.