Steven Kates watches the Duke Field airspace as Staff Sgt. Brian Morris, 96th Operations Group marks his aircraft flight strips at the air traffic control tower Oct. 4. Kates, a tower watch supervisor and controller for 37 years, trained Morris’s father in ATC in the early nineties. This year, he also helped train Morris and supervised his tower certification Oct. 4. (U.S. Air Force photo/Samuel King Jr.)