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Since Desert Storm, the E-2 community has established itself as expert in the command and control (C2) mission set. With more than a dozen radios and a new, reliable Internet-based chat capability, E-2 aircrew operate the C2 piece of both overland and overwater fights, serving as an airborne extension of various agencies of the Theater Air Ground System (TAGS) or as replacements-in-extremis for various Navy Composite Warfare Commander (CWC) stakeholders such as XW (Air and Missile Defense Commander) and XZ (Sea Combat Commander). The days of squinting at radar video in a dark Combat Information Center (CIC), while still partially relevant, are all but over as Hawkeye squadrons plug into C2 architecture around the world.

via The Greenie Board: Cowbell? We Need More Hawkeyes! Guest Author.

Greenie Board has a great piece on what the E-2 Hawkeye community has done in the last quarter century to become the Command and Control node that it is, and how leaders need to leverage that capability more.