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slated for March 31. “This simulator is expected to save the
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to work through design reviews, program
management, installations and inspections. When they first arrived, Parker didn’t
know what to expect of the Navy AVMI
According to Leonard Roen, 412th TMG, team.
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boom system. He also added that the data I’m really impressed with those folks,” said
collected by the new instrumentation will be Parker. “The team is fast, the quality of the
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The AVMI team will work closely with manpower limitation, it is critical that
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aircraft used by the U.S. Navy for anti-submarine warfare and communications command port in their modifications. According to cantly improve the data collection effort
control, and intelligence missions. 5RHQWKH$LU)RUFHZLOODOVREHQH¿WIURP that would not have been possible without
the work the Navy is doing because the new this sharing of trained personnel. Using this
instrumentation can be utilized by other as an example could lead to other opportu-
programs in the future. nities in the future and allow for more ef-
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“This is an outstanding example of utiliz-
ing trained personnel from other services
