He turned to one of the sensor operators.

"Yes, but the system is dead," the sensor operator replied.

I pulled the heavy steel hatch shut behind us, locked it, and went immediately to the sensor operator.

Last August, the base began a basic sensor operators' course.

"Three hundred miles east of Tokyo, sir," the sensor operator read aloud.

The 11th oversees the training of pilots and sensor operators assigned to the MQ-1.

During flight operations the crew in the ground control station is a pilot and two sensor operators.

"We should have it by now," the sensor operator said, concerned.

"We are entering the edge of their sensor range now," the sensor operator said.

He was flanked by a sensor operator and a pretty, young female lieutenant on scanner duty.