Suwon Air Base, South Korea, June 1962: Capt. Lachlan MacLeay, operations officer of Detachment 2, 6246th Air Force Advisory Group, checks out Col. Sun Hyok Rhim, director of operations, 10th ROK Fighter Wing, in an F-86D flight simulator. The giant electronic device let pilots check flying procedures on the ground. The small 40-man detachment advised Republic of Korea (ROK) Air Force units in every phase of their operation, from security to actually flying their jet fighters and reconnaissance planes.

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