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Ms. Hartzler's district has two large military bases, Fort Leonard Wood and Whiteman Air Force Base, home to the B-2 stealth bomber and a new ground-control station for unmanned Predator drones.

Project On Government Oversight: Are House GOP Freshmen Seriously Interested In Cutting the Defense Budget? Project On Government Oversight 2011

Ms. Hartzler's district has two large military bases, Fort Leonard Wood and Whiteman Air Force Base, home to the B-2 stealth bomber and a new ground-control station for unmanned Predator drones.

Project On Government Oversight: Are House GOP Freshmen Seriously Interested In Cutting the Defense Budget? Project On Government Oversight 2011

A major explained the routine, and then asked the pilots, most of them captains and majors, how many of them had ground-control landing experience.

Daring Young Men RICHARD REEVES 2010

In fact, the use of separate search and ground-control radar stations began at Tempelhof in 1948.

Daring Young Men RICHARD REEVES 2010

Another innovation perfected during the airlift was MTI Moving Target Indicator, which, for the first time, “saw” only moving objects, which allowed ground-control operators to see planes on their scopes as far away as seventy-five miles and watch them strung out like pearls on a necklace.

Daring Young Men RICHARD REEVES 2010

But ground-control types of either gender can accessorize with a backpack.

Springtime For Hipsters 2008

Underground and underwater fiber-optic cables link these trailers — ground-control stations, really — to Europe, where a satellite dish makes the connection directly to every Predator in the air over Baghdad, and along the Afghan-Pakistani border, and wherever else they are needed.

Hunting the Taliban in Las Vegas 2006

Underground and underwater fiber-optic cables link these trailers — ground-control stations, really — to Europe, where a satellite dish makes the connection directly to every Predator in the air over Baghdad, and along the Afghan-Pakistani border, and wherever else they are needed.

Hunting the Taliban in Las Vegas 2006

Suddenly, an Iraqi sentry at the main ground-control center spotted the choppers and turned to run toward the bunker.

Secret Warriors 2008

"One EA-6B off the EAst Coast of the U.S. could shut down every airport ground-control station from Boston to North Carolina," says one congressional defense aide.

Blinders For Iraq's Defenses 2008