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I REPORT directly to Edwards Air Force Base in California and I evaluate the training the team is getting now and how it relates to what is being set up in ATC programs. In the past, contractors have done this specialized training for the team, he noted. Before my assignment at Dugway, I was teaching at Sheppard Air Force Base in Texas, and I worked with the Titan missile system he added. Another major area of concern with the team is in logistics and MAJ Jim Hutchison leads the Air Force Logistics Command (AFLC) unit. His group includes two management specialists, a reliability engineer, ah electrical engineer, a production analyst and a computer software specialist. They report to AFLC headquarters at Tinker Air Force Base in Oklahoma. WERE LOOKING at three major areas, Hutchison explained, avail-- , ability; reliability and maintainabilty. Essentially the availability is a function of all the things put together and if the system works overall; reliability of the equipment involves an analysis if and when the equipment breaks a ev 3 t J i ch high-mobili- ty 44-m- L-- . an said. A similar security training exercise was conducted at Dugway by personnel from Camp Rullis. For many it was the first time they fired an M16 and participated in an exercise familiar to many Army soldiers. Part of the exercise involved a practice convoy that was ambushed and the team had to get out of trucks and set up a defensive position. The overall training of the team is TSGT David Blackmans concern. He is the only person assigned to the team from ATC (Air Training Command). Not naving had a great deal ot experience with that in the Air Force, were conducting training exercises to try to determine how many people it takes to do that. Some of our people will be going to Camp Bullis, Texas in exercise conducted by Tactical Air March to participate in a three-wee- k (Command (TAC). Were merely assisting them because it will benefit us in the long run to learn from this experience which will help in our evaluations, he added. ' GLCM team members participate In a physical training program Jim and Christ eena Stevens in the foreground. , v'- -. W. - rS.'SSTi ' ": ; , ' ' t ' ' : .yv- - v; ,v; I ' i , . 1 ' V o tr-iW - w A- Ai,., li i ) MSG Bobby J. Smith visits with AFTEC Commander MG Wayne E. Whit:latch after Smith was awarded the Meritorious Service Medal. MG Whit- ' . latch is sdieduled to return r Dining Out. to Dugway on April 10 to speak at a military thats the main computer at Hill Air Force Base that will continually analyze the system as we look at it from different viewpoints. We look at things from an operationalsuitability standpoint," he said, adding, Does it operationally work the way its supposed to - not does this one little piece of equipment meet specifications, but does it all. flow together. When you go out to the field, does the equipment work the way its supposed to work operationally. FOR EXAMPLE, if they have a requirement that a truck be able to drive through two feet of mud at 20 miles an hour and the contractor meets those requirements, thats one thing. They have met their specifications. But, if you deploy out to the field and you have to drive through three feet of mud and you end up driving at 15 miles per hour, you come up with a different requirement far a real situation, he commented. The problems are different - like two sides of a coin. Operational effectiveness is a major concern of our team, he concluded. Bowen projected a schedule of events for the team with the equipment arriving in September and October this year and testing starting in January, 1982. He added, This is a rather large test and to expend around a year preparing for that in writing the test plans and training people on an entirely new system is not really a very long time. y Right now were getting familiar with this new system. This phase is the least rewarding and most difficult portion of the test - the preparation and groundwork for the test. The results of all the effort arent visible and it takes a lot of concentrated hard work. OUR FINAL launch will be in January, 1983 when well put the entire GLCM flight together with all of its vehicles and all of its security. Well take it out in the field and move from place to place and demonstrate its mobility and its survivability and really see how all the pieces play together and that will be one of our major efforts in the test program, Bowen stated. . effort at The recognition oh that day will be the reward for the year-lon-g will suitable have the that a feasible, operationally plan putting together GLCM team working smoothly together. pro-ibl- |