606th ACS's road trip to Poland Published Sept. 10, 2015 By 2d Lt Meredith Mulvihill 52nd Fighter Wing Public Affairs KRZESINY, Poland -- Before there was the exercise, there was the convoy. In preparation for Aviation Rotation 15-4, members of the 606th Air Control Squadron at Spangdahlem Air Base, Germany, conveyed their equipment over 700 miles through Germany and Poland Sept. 1-2. The convoy, which went from Spangdahlem Air Base, Germany, to Krzesiny and Nadarzyce Air Bases, Poland, included forty vehicles, two TPS-75 radars and approximately 120 Airmen. It was the largest, and longest, convoy the 606th ACS has ever completed. "It was quite a sight to see," Maj. Christopher Howell, the 606th ACS convoy commander, said. He said the convoy went extremely well, and attributed the convoy's success to his Airmen and the training they received before leaving Spangdahlem. "I'm proud of all of them," Howell said. "For people - some who've never done something like this before - to be able to pick up, have us put that amount of trust in them, and execute the way we wanted them to was extremely gratifying." Upon arriving in Poland, the 606th ACS set up two operating bases to support Av-Det Rotation 15-4. The 606th ACS work alongside a Polish Control and Reporting Center to provide tactical air control for the exercise, which also includes four F-16 Fighting Falcon fighter aircraft squadrons from the United States and Poland.