Formerly known as the UK Landing Force Command Support Group (UK LFCSG), it carries out intelligence gathering and analysis.
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His unit was part of the landing force of the sixth fleet sent to Bosnia and Herzegovina to support Nato-led peace-keeping efforts.
Atlantis was caught in a rare desert downpour after landing at Edwards Air Force Base in the Mojave Desert on February 20.
The launch comes on the heels of the successful flight of OTV-2, which made an autonomous landing at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif.
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According to witnesses, the slab fell to earth seconds after Air Force One passed overhead while landing.
CNN's Jeff Flock reported from the landing zone at Litohoro that the full force was expected take up to eight hours to come ashore.
Later, in the departures lounge, I watched the landing of a huge United States Air Force transport plane, which disgorged lots of equipment and loaded several lorries-full of troops.
One hundred and fifty orphans and 28 adults died when a US air force transport plane made an emergency landing after a door blew out.
Meanwhile, Brazil's air force released video of Tuesday's landing prior to the crash, which shows the doomed flight coming in much faster than other planes that were landing at the same time.
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An early version of a flexible Air Force plane with vertical take-off and landing capabilities.
On landing, they soon find themselves pinned down by a vast force of enemy troops.
Some cut-price airlines want regulators to force Swiss and British Airways to give up valuable take-off and landing slots at London's busy Heathrow airport if Swiss is allowed to become a Oneworld member.
The air force says the problems in question (including communications glitches in poor weather and landing mishaps) have since been solved.
Air traffic control suggested Dobbins Air Force Base, about 20 miles (32 km) east, as a possible landing site, but it was beyond reach.
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