WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) — Wichita native Christopher Rodriguez spent over a decade serving his country in the Air Force and the Kansas Air National Guard.
He joined the guard in 2011 and trained to be a ground radar maintenance technician.
“You’re basically putting the eyes, the air picture, up front for the troops in an area where there may not be one,” he said.
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Rodriguez became an expert working with the TPS-75 radar system, and his training frequently took him off base and into the Kansas wilderness…