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positivity, from page 1 ___
Since August of 2016, Mc- Bride has been receiving che- motherapy treatment every two weeks with each session being five to six hours long. She shows up for her treatment at 8 a.m. and sits in a chair and receives her round of medica- tions through a port hooked up in her chest.
“The sessions were draining,” said McBride. “I would just go home and sleep after. The side effects were awful. I would get extremely nauseous and there were days where I wouldn’t be able to make it to the office, but I had a laptop so I would work from home to keep the mission going.”
McBride has never wanted cancer to define her. She contin- ues to work and live life as she did before the diagnosis. She’s an extremely driven person who enjoys her job and being around the people she works with.
As of today, she is well on her way to remission and has plans to keep driving the mission forward in any way.
simulAtors, from page 2 _________
Simulators can build proficiency and confi- dence through “reps” for all levels of warfighters in scenarios where the threats and environments can be efficiently modified to meet the needs of the scenario (day/night for example). The visuals in these new flight simulators are quite impres- sive, using a full dome, and providing nearly 360 degrees field of view. The only things missing are the gravity forces and physical demands of actual flying. And just as your kids (or maybe you!) get the desired effect on your X-Box...for example, you shooting at bad guys and them shooting at you — all at what is programmed into the system as realistic ranges for the weapons you are em- ploying — the same is true/the goal for virtual air combat training environments.
Eventually combat training will include a fully integrated Air, Space and Cyberspace virtual en- vironment. At this point however, a high priority is being placed on getting our 5th generation air platforms (F-35 and F-22) connected and able to operate in an integrated manner in the virtual world. This is a daunting task that the USAFWC will lead and influence...as these two platforms are designed to be complimentary and succeed in what we term High-End (HE) scenarios. Get- ting the F-22 and F-35 simulators connected and the modeling and simulation standardized in a common constructive HE environment will take the better part of the next two years.
Now, as stated earlier – we must balance and
manage expectations for how much we can benefit from simulator training and how much is more effectively (or only) accomplished in live fly. Some considerations:
• Virtual training either typically does not or physically cannot simulate maintenance interaction, operational tempo, fatigue, fallout, and the physiological demands of actual flying. It also does not exercise the actual hardware on the aircraft.
• Airmanship skills, decision making stress- ors in real world, life and death situations can- not be replaced.
• The psychological impact of knowing you are going up against a real pilot in another air- craft may be different than facing a computer generated threat.
• In the simulator you are more likely to take risks not advisable in actual aircraft – getting dangerously close to the ground or other air- craft...knowing there’s no real risk, other than re-setting the sim.
• Exercising aircraft generation - proficiency and confidence across maintenance (sortie gen- eration) and aircraft systems is critical – only canned be gained from live fly
In summary — expect to see more vir- tual training devices at Nellis, and while not a substitute for live fly, simulators and virtual training are a critical piece of our warfighting readiness!
And with that in mind, we say — Fly, Fight, Sim, Gym and Win!
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