I was deployed to an airbase in Oman and doing very little. I was an air traffic controller and the base I was at handled mostly C-130’s. There was a port about 50 miles from the base. Ships would dock there offloading munitions. Trucks would carry the munitions up to the base, transfer it to the 130’s, and then flown north to where the Army was. In the weeks leading up to the start of the war the base was very, very busy. C-130’s were arriving and departing around the clock, actually it was some of the busiest traffic I ever worked. Constant drone of C-130’s landing, taxiing, and taking off. But when the airwar started the traffic out of our base pretty much stood down. The airspace folks didn’t want slow C-130’s flying in the same airspace as so many fighters. So for me, there was little to be done.
Security Flight Sergeant in Oman
Watching the KCs take off and land knowing they just pumped gas to the birds dumping the bombs