Forward Air Controllers Library

History of Airborne Forward Air Controllers

Modern FACS

Mosquitoes to Wolves

Mosquitoes to Wolves The Evolution of the Airborne Forward Air Controller
GARY ROBERT LESTER

THE HISTORY OF THE AIRBORNE FORWARD AIR CONTROLLER IN VIETNAM
A thesis presented to the Faculty of the US Army Command and General Staff College in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree
MASTER OF MILITARY ART AND SCIENCE Military History
by
ANDREW R. WALTON, LCDR, USN B.A., University of Mississippi, Oxford, Mississippi, 1993
Fort Leavenworth, Kansas 2004
Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited.

Forward Air Control WWII

Marines_Pacific

AIR COMMAND AND STAFF COLLEGE
AIR UNIVERSITY
United States Marine Corps
Air-Ground Integration in the
Pacific Theater
GARY L. THOMAS
Major, USMC
Air Command and Staff College
Wright Flyer Paper No. 9
MAXWELL AIR FORCE BASE, ALABAMA
November 1999

Fast FACs

USMC_FastFACs

Marine Corps Heritage Foundation 1987 Geiger Ward Winner

“Who Were Those Guys? THE PLAYBOYS”

Colonel John L. Adkinson, Jr., USMC

As published in Marine Corps Gazette, May 1986

Printer by permission

Fast-FACs Are ‘Special Breed’ of Marine Pilots – latimes

Los Angles Times article, June 23, 1991

FASTFAC OR FASTDAC 1997

FASTFAC OR FASTDAC?

CSC 1997

Subject Area – General

Major John M. Scanlan, USMC

Comparing Fast FAC and Fast DACS form Vietnam to Desert Storm

U.S. Marines in the Persian Gulf 90-91 The 3D MAW

U.S. Marines in the Persian Gulf, 1990-1991 THE 3D MARINE AIRCRAFT WING IN DESERT SHIELD AND DESERT STORM
by
Lieutenant Colonel LeRoy D. Stearns
U.S. Marine Corps
HISTORY AND MUSEUMS DIVISION
HEADQUARTERS, U.S. MARINE CORPS
WASHINGTON, D.C.
1999