The competition began in 1995 as a means to push the best Airmen from each squadron to compete, improve, and bring new skills back to their units. Hosted by the 18th Air Support Operations Group and organized by the 818th Operations Support Squadron, the annual competition is designed to identify the best Joint Terminal Attack Controller teams within the group by testing their competitors’ steadfast physical, technical, tactical, and field-knowledge skills under mock combat conditions. It does not store any personal data.Sixteen Airmen competed in the 2022 Dragon Challenge that took place at Pope Army Airfield from Sept. The cookie is set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin and is used to store whether or not user has consented to the use of cookies. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category 'Performance'. This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category 'Other. The cookies is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category 'Necessary'. The cookie is set by GDPR cookie consent to record the user consent for the cookies in the category 'Functional'. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category 'Analytics'.

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