Combat Weather Teams (Airborne) are highly trained meteorologists assigned to U.S. Army Airborne and Special Operations Units worldwide.
CWTs are trained to provide meteorological and oceanographic information in and for the special operations theater of conflict. Duties perfomed include tactical infiltration, forecasting, training indigenous personnel to take limited observations, and mission tailoring of environmental information. CWTs perform their job from forward deployed bases, dropzones, or behind enemy lines using miniature, tactical weather equipment and a variety of communications equipment. Specially trained members of a Combat Weather Team can collect real- time weather intelligence data during Special Reconnaissance (SR) missions. They conduct these special recon missions independently in permissive or uncertain environments, or while augmenting other special operations forces in hostile areas.
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