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Keeping
guard
84
WING Detachment’s Boeing 707s receive as much security when
parked on the ground as they do in the air over Afghanistan.
When they are idle on the apron at Manas International Airport in
Kyrgyzstan between refuelling missions, there is one man who operates
behind the scenes to head off potential threats.
“My specialisation is security police, so I basically look
after Air Force assets on bases,” he said.
“This is a base that just doesn’t happen to be in Australia,
but the skill-sets match up.”
His average day consists of a host of meetings with coalition security
advisers to keep tabs on possible threats relating to operations
being conducted out of Ganci Air Base.
“The types of threats that we expect might manifest themselves
against coalition assets would be those that have been brought in
from outside of Kyrgyzstan,” he said.
“So together we look at that range of threats and translate
them into something that is meaningful to the coalition as a whole,
then down to what it means to units like 84 Wing Detachment.
“From there I look at the types of counter-measures we can
employ against them.”
Not surprisingly the focus has not shifted.
“We’re currently focused on the terrorist threat from
al Qa’eda.”
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