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    While editor of Air Force Space Command’s one-time official magazine, Guardian, George wrote this 1993 article that may be the first story anywhere about putting GPS into a person’s hand. Years later, at Airman Magazine, he’d write about GPS again, and how it would survive the impending “doom” of Y2K.

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    While editor of Air Force Space Command’s one-time official magazine, Guardian, George wrote this 1993 article that may be the first story anywhere about putting GPS into a person’s hand. Years later, at Airman Magazine, he’d write about GPS again, and how it would survive the impending “doom” of Y2K.

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    Feature a gri Talon Hook puts GPS in downed aircrew hands By SSgt. George Hayward ‘Ar Force Space Command Public Atairs It’s not quite Star Trek, but it will save lives. ‘Remember how Capt. Kirk never needed to give his coordinates when ‘Scotty beamed him out of Klingon clutches? It seems his communicator did it for him. He needed only to say, “Beam me up,” and his communicator told the transporter where to aim. ‘The Air Force doesn’t have trans- porters (yet), but an innovative Air Force Space Command program is us- ing the Global Positioning System to pinpoint and pluck downed aircrews from behind enemy lines, just like Kirk’s communicator, ‘Talon Hook, one of several com- ‘mand Talon programs that give warfighters new uses for space sys- tems, mates tiny GPS receivers to PRC-112 emergency radios used by Page 6 # GUARDIAN © September 1993 Getti space Poy 308 Aus Sua Alrerew members take cover as an MH-53J Pave Low helicopter descends to pluck them from behind simulated enemy lines in July Eidolon Lance on Guam. Talon Hook equipment guided the chopper directly to the scone, jetting rescuers extract the aircrew in less than 90 seconds. ‘downed aircrews. This combination, called 2 GPS-112, uses communica- tions satellites and GPS to let a downed pilot, as well as the search and rescue team, know where he is, where he needs to go and, perhaps most impor- tantly, even where the enemy is. And it does this without the pilot or search team ever speaking to each other. “The Talon Hook system can improve the survivability of our forces simply by the time it takes to get accurate location from this device with the field unit all the way through the system ‘whatever rescue forces are g0- ing to do the extraction,” said Capt. Ed Loxterkamp, Talon Hook project officer. ‘Without the GPS connec- tion, a downed aviator uses the PRC-112 to talk to search and rescue forces, who often fly for hours before finding the aviator. At the same time, enemy forces may also be searching forthe aviator, lis- ing Special Project ‘ening to his radio transmissions to also locate him, This not only increases their chances of capturing the aviator, but also puts the search and rescue team at greater risk of coming under fire. ‘With the GPS-112, the aviator can PRC-112 TAL REN How Talon Hook works 1. GPS satelites provide accurate location signal Relay Satellite au cps PRN Location dat passed to Joint Recovery Coordination Center in theater 7 ; ———— i 2 AWACS ‘8. Location burst-transmitted ABCCC to gircraft andlor satelite relay ‘Other _5: Rescue orees deploy Pe aS to aircrew GPS location

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