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Imagine 70 people with diverse, highly qualified skiHs and capabilities and then contemplate bringing them together in one location to mold them into a smooth working unit and you begin to get an idea of the goals of the CLCM team. Air Force COL Thomas G. Bowen, who leads the team, said: Were organizing a test team with people from various commands and getting them working together as a homogeneous unit. It takes quite an effort when people are all from different backgrounds and experiences, and here the Air Force is much like the Army in that there are a lot of significant differences , among commands. It takes a lot to get these people working together as a system standpoint of determining how effective it is when operated and deployed by Air Force personnel, and its suitability - how supportable it is in the field. . The development phase of the testing will be conducted by the 6545th Test Group from Hill Air Force Base. These will be down here to people conduct their tests on a temporary duty basis, he said. WEVE GOT PEOPLE who are operators and maintainers who Are experienced in missile systems and thats their background. Theyre not so much engineers as they are technicians so that-wcan evaluate how well an Air Force team can maintain and the operate system, he added. V ; w . ig f , - V - ' 17i- . -- - .. ' ' - 'Hi 'S ? team. ' J , . .... "' - ? i J V s. '. - i ' ' .. - ' , 'A - . JS .. - 1 j n ' h! ."M . V.-- v V - If v , , ' 4 A. Connie L. Ru( ' ;.. . ? By ... , - '" t - ',-- ; . - a. W"' j TWo of the technical experts are a husbandwife team (E6) Jim and (E5) Christeena Stevens. They work in the maintenance section as electronic technicians. The 35 people that make up the maintenance complex offer specialties in refrigeration, missile mechanics, power mechanics, communications, and other areas. .. The Stevens worked with the Minuteman system before coming to Dugway last falls and Christeena said, Basically we use our background in electronics but we adapt that information to peculiarities in this new system. Well set it up and then well train new people and of course were getting help from a lot of higher agencies. RIGIFT NOW were looking at training packages and what kind of tasks t0 aCCOmplish training requirements well Aeckkd!aVe We volunteered to come on this assignment because its challenging working on a test program and because its new and the work varies a lot, Jim explained and Christeena commented, Of course it can be frustrating there arent established standards, and the requirements AirForce for this new equipment so we have to do a lot of research. by 'The majority of the research and of the test plan comes under the Operations area of the team consolidating with eight launch officers, two security policemen, and one mission planner. NDY LN?JNG e of the launch officers, said: Over 400 launch offirsapphed for work with the cruise system and of those, eight were selected. That s true in every area of the GLCM team. So obviously the this team were each lrldnghereon brought here because of unique skills they cancontribute to tiie system development. Because this is knows exactly how its going to work but Sere has the backgrxmnd to learn and contribute their data and everybody ' knowledge. .Much of our work is hi a coordinated effort headquarters . lone LgexpSiedOnFeb. 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