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Vol. 62, No. 28
                                                                                                                                     July 17, 2015

Published in the interest of Fort Huachuca personnel and their Families. Online @ www.aerotechnews.com/forthuachuca/ or via smartphone.

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has come a long way since it was first at-
tempted in the late 1800s. In our tech-      Army UAS at Fort Huachuca.                   was used by the Navy, Marines and the      ditional 20 years of civil service, remem-
nology-driven society, unmanned aircraft        Appropriately named, Pioneer UAS          Army in Operation Desert Storm/Desert
systems (UAS) are now available to indi-                                                  Shield                                     bers leaning out a helicopter with a lap
viduals, and businesses are testing them to  was the initial operational capability used
make commercial deliveries.                  by visionary Service members. Pioneer           Grosinsky, an Army retiree with an ad-  strap on, collecting imagery during Op-
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   But there was a time when unmanned
aircraft on a battlefield was unimaginable.
In the early 90s, a group of five Soldiers
and a Marine known as the “Dirty Half
Dozen,” braved robust skepticism to pur-
sue an exciting vision of the future.

   Bill Carlisle, Terry Dyer, Mark Farrar,
Elliott Gates, Richard Grosinsky and Cliff
McGraw were inspired by the capabilities
of unmanned aircraft systems and their
potential for the Department of Defense.
Fueled by that passion, both Farrar, now
director for training at the 2-13th Avia-
tion Regiment, and Grosinsky, currently
the senior civilian at Company B, 2-13th
Aviation Regiment, are still involved with

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