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my name is Williams W . I L . L . I am

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captain . My squadron is the 99th , the

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R . S . I play the RQ four Global Hawks ,

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both A and B . Model and I've been

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doing that since uh six months now .

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It's a very interesting job . It's

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different than anything any other

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flying that I've ever done before for

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sure . The interaction between the

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virtual crew working with people in

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different locations is a challenge and

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it's fun to the UN mission to do the

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difference the deployed location . We

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primarily just do just take off and

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landing portion . We're here at the

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deployed location is just a launch

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recovery element where we simply exact

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what it says is we just catch the

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airplane and then take it off for the

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next , the next mission for us . It's

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the day to day operations of mission

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planning checking the weather checking

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in , no time to make sure the the

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shelter itself in the airplane . The

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mission is ready for us to take the

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airplane off , working with the L . N .

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O . To make sure that we are ready to

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do the next mission . The only Delano

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is a liaison officer between the chaos

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and US users and we work with them . So

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instead of questions being filled in

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directly to the EMC , they handle the

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next level above us to give us target

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Jack Oh mission and that kind of work

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the mission step itself . The day to

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day basis comes in . We checked the

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weather check the gnomes , make sure

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the status of the airplane like I said

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before was up and ready to go . And

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then we go from there too . Coming into

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the shelter here and spinning at the

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shelter , starting at the airplane from

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there , we just take a pick off the

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airplane and hand it off back to the

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home station about an hour out . And

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they take the airplane from that on on

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country here is this is the only refer

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to as the L re the launch recovery

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elements . And on these screens we have

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the pilot station and then the

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maintenance side is on the left hand

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side here . This is my primary screen

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that we look at and control the

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airplane on um our functions is the

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keyboard and mouse . We give commands

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to the airplane from there is how we

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control the airplane . And this is the

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where we do the launching and covering

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in the air for the global hawk view .

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Our primary challenges just to control

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the the logic that's in the airplane .

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We've we give it commands and to

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take off , stop , taxi on board . All

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the standard stuff that you would do in

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a normal airplane is now controlled

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with the keyboard and mouse as opposed

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to throttle and and breaks it with a

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typical airplane . However , we can

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control this airplane just as well as

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we can any other airplane . Um It's

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just a difference of keyboard mouse as

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opposed to stick and rudder