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a different kind of bird

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is flying around Camp Santiago Joint

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maneuver Training center as a unique

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group of citizen soldiers from the 24th

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Engineer Sapper Company , 1/30 engineer

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battalion trained to operate the Army's

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smallest unmanned aerial vehicle known

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as the raven . The raven has a small ,

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hand thrown , remote controlled U . A .

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V . Developed for the U . S . Military

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and is new to the Puerto rico Army

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National Guard . A small aircraft is

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flown by remote control by the ground

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station operators and can fly

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completely independent missions

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navigating via GPS and be ordered to

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immediately return to its launch point .

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Simply by pressing a command button .

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The raven provides up to the minute

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intelligence over a given area , day or

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night , feeding live video to the

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controller , greatly increasing

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situational awareness . Mark Green in a

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raven system , instructor says the

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small um can recon ahead of troops and

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possibly save lives . Well , instead of

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sending troops out to recon a convoy ,

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you can send no uh unmanned aircraft

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out there to do the same thing you can

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recognize or an area come back . It's

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providing real uh providing live video

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coverage . So the troop commander on

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the convoy can see what he's getting

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into . If somebody's up there planting

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an IED or whatever the case may be . If

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you know , if there's a mob up there ,

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if the route is clear , he can ,

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instead of putting soldiers lives in

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danger , he can just launch this

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aircraft in a matter of minutes . The

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Ravens convenient size allows for easy

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transport in three small cases which

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fit into a rucksack so the crew can

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move it with them to operate wherever

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their patrol goes . The hand launched

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raven requires one pilot and a second

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soldier to examine the received data .

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24th raven operator specialist Carlos

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Rios , appreciates the pre deployment

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training . This is this training is

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very interesting . Uh , it's

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my , my first time do one type of

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training with that kind . But this is a

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good training . I feel comfortable

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learning a lot for that piece of

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equipment . Raven lands itself by auto

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piloting to a near hover at the launch

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point and drops harmlessly to the

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ground , weighing just over £4 . 10 14

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citizen soldiers now have use of the

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Ravens ability to perform on demand

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flights of areas for instant

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intelligence , decreasing the risk for

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soldiers . The 24th is currently

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deployed to Afghanistan to conduct

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route clearance missions and support of

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operation enduring freedom for the

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Puerto rico , National Guard Public

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Affairs Office . I am Army Sergeant

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robert Cohen yeah , in fact ,