A Field Trip with the Ret. Lt. Col.

Posted on February 9, 2009 at 6:00 pm by jasonlee

As some may know our operations director, Jerry Croegaert, is recently Retired Lt. Col. Jerry Croegaert (ANG), Commander of the 169th Air Support Operations Squadron. Well today we took a field trip to see the old stomping grounds of our new leader. The 169th shares a base with the 182nd Airlift Wing (a C130 Unit). Jeremie, Linda, Melanie and I went along with Jerry to the Air National Guard base in Bartonville, IL.
The primary reason for our visit was information sharing with the Coms personnel on base. This was a great opportunity to see how they are doing all things IT as well as share our successes at Northwoods and the ANG as well as our struggles. It was interesting to learn that their operations are very similar to ours (well except people don’t die if we mess things up) and they struggle with many of the same issues as those in the CITRT community… Limited Budget, Expectations to provide cutting edge technology and support and train our users to utilize that technology.
One take away from our trip was the accountability from the top down of the organization of Technology Continuing Education. MSgt George Garcia will be sending over some samples of their online Education tools that I hope to digest and reuse in our environment.
I would share some photos from the DataCenter but we had to turn our cameras/phones in during that part of the tour.

Here are some photos from the rest of the base where we were allowed to take photos (Jeremie and I asked several times if it was ok to take photos in specific areas we didn’t want to see anyone get tackled like in the Terry Tate commercials.)

A C130 Taking off