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Reserve force based information hotel . 

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Now , current altimeter two Niner Niner 

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eight 

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follow . So I control all the airplanes 

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that are flying right now and all the 

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aircraft that like that F 16 right 

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there . That's gonna pull up to the 

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runway and requested the tracking 

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inbound to follow F 35 5 miles north of 

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attacking frustrated 

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eight . 

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What makes this tower special in my 

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opinion is just all the diversity 

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that's here with all the tests that 

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gets conducted here . Um , all the 

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different airframes that Edwards has to 

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offer all the different patterns that 

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Edwards has to offer . Um Additionally , 

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we have lake beds that aircraft perform 

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landings And take offs on and we're 

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surrounded by restricted airspace . So 

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it's just very complex and 

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sometimes it can get a little hectic up 

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there because what the sport says , 

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I'll call you back what if sports is 

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he's already 3.60 . Right ? So yeah , 

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we can't do that . 

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So this guy get 100% depart in front of 

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them . Right , so that's like the 

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coordination isn't necessary because 

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you don't need 36 . 

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The civilians are here primarily 

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because of the mission at Edwards and 

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the complexity of it . And to have some 

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continuity in the in the services that 

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we provide in our experience levels 

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that we that we possess from all being 

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prior well , for the most part being 

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prior military controllers . And then a 

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Vampire 93 Edwards Ground it's actually 

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part b bravo foxtrot echo cross runway 

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23 right and coming out of either the 

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test world or the fighter the fighter 

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world and pretty much that's why we get 

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hired here and for our expertise and 

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also to mentor and train the young new 

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active duty airman . 

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This space in particular has a lot of 

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different things , a lot of different 

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operations and test operations and 

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things like that . So it's definitely 

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more helpful to uh have civilians 

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around to be more comfortable and help 

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you deal with those stresses rather 

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than uh kind of strict military 

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environment . They will be given their 

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first duty assignment . And again , 

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it'll be tower or radar and that's 

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where their real journey begins . And 

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that's where they get all the uh on the 

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job training . And that could be 

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anywhere from six months to two years 

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depending on the facility that they go 

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to a tower or radar facility that we 

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share that bond that I can talk to an 

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airman and I can say I have been there 

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where you're at doing the same thing 

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you're doing and trust me , uh you'll 

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get there