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wall. We also had a bunk room in there with eight bunks for
aircrew members or anyone who needed to sleep. It was an
area of constant activity and coordination and
communications between various command and control notes.

It was very healthy for folks like the SPs and the MOC and
EOD and civil engineering and NBC to be located in the same
room, talking to their people out in the field. Things got
done very, very quickly, but it was very healthy for all
those people to be together, coordinating immediately,
responsive to the on-scene commander's desires, getting
everybody moving on the same sheet of music, so it worked.
It worked well. The concept of the SRC works well. As a
matter of fact, we were getting to the point where the
building itself was called the SRC rather than the command
post or fighter ops, so you can see how big an operation it
became.

It was always my desire to keep it as small as possible and
yet retain the capabilities that we needed to operate the
airfield. We ran barrier operations. Fire operations,
etc., were all run from the SRC. It works, again, extremely
well, and I would just like to see the idea of the SRC
promoted in various exercises to see what it can develop
into. Again, I think it is important to keep it small, to
keep lots of redundant communications available. We had
several ways of communicating, several different types of
radios, several different frequencies; all redundant backups
to each other.

Other folks would have been helpful in there, like the
medics, the RM [Resource Manager] representative, Navy and
ADA [Air Defense Artillery] representative would have also
been healthy. We were able to operate without them at the

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