For veteran Josh Anderson, it’s all about managing risks.
As part of ground operations for the Air Force, he was in charge of making sure bombs hit exactly what they were intended to, rather than dropping on nearby civilians. Trained as a Joint Terminal Attack Controller, Anderson used cameras and sensors on overhead Air Force planes that showed him a live feed of the landscape below. His job was to pinpoint enemy locations and call in airstrikes.
Now, he’s a risk management and insurance major at the University of Georgia.
Anderson joined the Air Force right out of high school. Less than two weeks after graduating from Salem High School in Conyers with a 3.9 GPA, he was in basic training at Lackland Air Force Base, which is based in San Antonio, Texas. After that, most of his training took place at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, where he was stationed for six years. There, he would train with a 100-pound ruck sack and practice going on combat missions.
In 2016, he was deployed to Iraq to fight ISIS.
It’s the work he’s most proud of.
“We liberated multiple cities while I was there — Ramadi, Fallujah. Before I left, we were halfway through Mosul,” he said. “To be a primary…
