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I think all of Coast Guard aviation has

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benefited from the , from the flying

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techniques here hit rock . The first

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tour , we were still a relative unknown

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within aviation . So you had a small

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group of folks that had hit Ron

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experience , just a handful at that

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point when I was here . And so a lot of

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the things we were doing , we were

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working at a speed that was beyond what

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policy and procedures in the Coast

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Guard can keep up with . And we had a

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civilian flight manual , a lot of

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things that were in our air operations

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manual really didn't address the

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mission that we were flying . And so

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one of the things I saw first tour was

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getting changed done for the unit was

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difficult and challenging . But as I

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came back for my second tour , a lot of

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the duty standing pilots that I had

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deployed with and flown had now gone on

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and we're doing significant staff jobs

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and area commands at program , elements

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at headquarters at mobile . And so you

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had advocates now at that level , you

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had folks that understood what this

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mission demanded . And so the speed of

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change and keeping up was had gotten

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much easier . Likewise , you know , the

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rest of aviation has changed its

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policies and procedures came forward .

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Now you had someone on the staff saying ,

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wait a minute . This might impact hitch

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on how they do their mission before .

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Uh , that didn't happen as often . So I

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think that was a big notable change for

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us is it became easier for I think the

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rest of Coast Guard to almost fully

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understand what our needs were down

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here and really get to a point where uh

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making sure these crews can do their

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missions that are armed with the right

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policies and procedures as much uh much

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better the second time around .

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Yeah . Not only has been extremely

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successful in the war on drugs , but it

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has made our legacy search and rescue

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missions safer as well .

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Yeah , they just took someone saying

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you need to do this . And then it took

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finding the right group of folks that

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weren't afraid to try it . Mhm ,

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mm .