U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Stephen Boniol
demonstrates how to operate a control tower light signaling gun on
an air base in Southwest Asia, May 18, 2009.
The light gun is used
to communicate with either aircraft or ground vehicles during
communications failures.
Boniol is an air traffic controller with
the 379th Expeditionary Operations Squadron.
U.S. Air Force photo by
Staff Sgt. Joshua Garcia |