By Master Sgt. Scott Thompson

182nd Airlift Wing (Published in In Flight USA by permission of Air Force Public Relations) 

Master Sgt. Chuck Barth checks a training bundle from an airdrop with a C-130 Hercules at Grayling Gunnery Range August 6, 2013, during exercise Northern Strike. Barth is a joint terminal air controller with the 182nd Air Support Operations Group in Peoria. (U.S. Air Force photo/Master Sgt. Scott Thompson)As Senior Airman Nick Barth prepared a standard airdrop training bundle on a C-130 Hercules during exercise Northern Strike on Aug. 6, 2013, he reflected on what his father told him right before his deployment in support of Operation Enduring Freedom.

“Whenever you are resupplying troops in the field, put a care package in the bundle that says, ‘For the JTAC only,’” the loadmaster said, quoting his father, Master Sgt. Chuck Barth, a joint terminal air controller for more than 25 years with the 182nd Air Support Operations Group in Peoria.