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you just get you to state your full

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name , your rank and your job title sir .

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Captain brian Backman . I'm an

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evaluator pilot at 3 1930 feeling

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wearing a Grand Forks Air Force Base .

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Um Can you just briefly go through the

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Air Force career ? Uh My Air Force

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career is encompasses uh I've spent a

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year in pilot training and then I flew

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the C . 17 at Mcchord Air Force Base

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for four years . I got picked up for a

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cross flow program and I've been flying

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the KC 1 35 at Grand Forks Air Force

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Base for the last three years . What

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are we doing today here sir ? Uh What

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we're doing here today is we're

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umpiring for the M . C . Rodeo

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competition here in 2007 . We're at

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Grant County International Airport in

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moses lake Washington . And we're here

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grading the A . C . 17 assault landings

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and were also grading the oath of

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gypsum precision landing competition .

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Also included in that is the the

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blocking precision blocking times for

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the D . V . Airlift . Uh Quickly um

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you said uh Sam just briefly

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yeah understand what that is . Is that

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is the the C . 20 one's C . 37 C .

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40 type aircraft that do a lot of the

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devi airlift , the distributor visitor

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airlift . And they're here doing a

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competition practicing their precision

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landings . And what they need to do is

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well actually land on the runway about

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1500 ft down and then we grade them um

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left or right or short or long of that

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uh 1500 ft mark . And then after they

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land then they taxed in as though they

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had like a general officer on board and

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they actually have to meet a time a

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block in time and they'll actually tax

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in . And if they're outside of five

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seconds they start getting deducted

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points . If they're five seconds late

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parking at that parking spot . Um

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What is a rodeo umpire ? Your

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rodeo empire ? What is that ? Encompass ,

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well rodeo empire is I'm a scan of L .

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A . Pilot back at home . And what they

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did is they recruited people from

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different wings to come help out the

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air mobility command staff , the

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evaluators at the air mobility command .

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And they brought us here to help them

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supplement them in their evaluation

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process for this . So what I do is I

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just uh I sit out here on the end of

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the runway and I just sit there and

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actually see where they land go out

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there and market and then give them a

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score . Give the aircrew a score back

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of exactly how short or long or if they

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are right on target . Um

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You

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know how they choose rodeo empires . Um

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What they do is as I said it's A . M .

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C . Staff . The scan about people up at

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a three V . That actually are the main

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lead when it comes to the to the

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umpires and then they go out and they

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kind of get a cross section of people

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with within the weapons systems or from

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other units other bases . And they just

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have us come out and help supplement so

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that we can uh allows us to have

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interaction with other pilots , other

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weapon systems from maintenance people

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to uh security forces to even working

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with you guys , combat camera crews to

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actually see how we implement um

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mobility air forces in today's Air

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force . You know who all is involved

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entirely with the rodeo as far as the

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rodeo . It's what they do with rodeo is

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it's uh it's uh trying to build a

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esprit de corps within the mobility air

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forces and also they include the

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International Mobility forces . Um

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They'll have people from uh air crews

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from other countries come in , they

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have uh air crews from like from A . T .

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C . And they also have , it's just not

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airplanes that specific . They also

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have the maintenance people . Um They

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have aerial port to have security

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forces and it's a competition for

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everybody . Just kind of seeing how we

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actually do the mission . If there were

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uh something that maybe the general

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public could relate this competition to ,

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Maybe something they saw on tv . Is

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there anything that they would be able

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to relate to if you were trying to

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describe this to somebody that didn't

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know what was going on in essence and

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then we've had a couple of people

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actually passed is here in the local

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Mosul like community of you know why

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we're here and we told them that we're

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here for rodeo And they're like , wow ,

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that that's the a rodeo competition

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they have . I think that the public

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affairs people do a very good job of

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explaining what it is . But it's just

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an airplane competition . It's just us

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coming out and doing what we do on a

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daily basis to actually implement the

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weapon system within the system . And

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we're just trying to grade what we do

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back at home from training and

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evaluation type thing and just

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validating our processes that we have

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back home . What do you feel that the

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importance of this competition as far

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as

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how

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air force and whoever else is

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involved in real time

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situation . That is just really a real ,

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real world situations ? Well , it's ,

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you know , relating this to real world

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situations is what we do is , you know ,

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this is what we do . I mean they have a

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competition for the , like the assault

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landings for the c 17 . I mean they do

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this in country , you know , in combat

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in the combat operations on a daily

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basis . So this is just validating what

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they're , what they're doing from a

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training standpoint and they're just

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coming out here now , just trying to

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make it precise , it just have an

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outside agency look at at how they're

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actually doing . It's not really an

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evaluation standpoint , but it's more

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of just a friendly competition to say ,

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hey , you know , our bass is better

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than your base . Our our pilots are

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better than your pilots are our

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security forces . It's across the

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spectrum . If there's going to be a

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winner when it comes to the point of

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this end of this competition , somebody

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will be , you know , the best area

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feeling team will have the best

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maintenance team . And then it's kind

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of , that's bragging rights then for

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the next two years and say , hey here

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that , you know , this base , we do ,

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we do it the best awesome .

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See I'm trying to think of anything

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else on the top of my head here .

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Is there anything that you can think of

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that maybe you would want to say to ,

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uh , maybe troops overseas , uh , that

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are deployed right now , uh , as far as

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the , you know , for the troops

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overseas , you know , we appreciate

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what they do . Everybody takes their

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turn . You know , this is just another

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opportunity for the people that are at

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home to show what they do and then they

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turn around and then they'll go back

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overseas from the deployment standpoint

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and say , hey , we did really good

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doing this and they swap out . It's a ,

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it's a rotating , uh , it's a rotating

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process and everybody does their fair

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share overseas and you know , just to

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know that uh , that we're thinking of

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them while they're away from home , you

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know , knowing that they're put in

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harm's way on a daily basis and

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appreciate everything that they do ,

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anything else you'd like to answer , no ,

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that's a bit