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The leadership here at Shire Force Base

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is advocating for the future

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modernization of the F-16 , knowing

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that we will be around and part of the

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fighting force for a long , long time .

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It's critical that we continue to

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modernize and our pilots remain trained

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and prepared for whatever the future

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may bring , using the tools and

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resources that already exist to us .

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And finding creative solutions within

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those resources to facilitate the most

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effective and accurate training

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environment that we possibly can . One

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of the ways we're getting after that is

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by taking the existing airspace

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construct that's provided to us through

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the FAA and utilizing the expertise

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that we have here through our radar

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purge controllers to connect airspaces

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that were . Previously not connected

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and facilitate larger training areas

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for our pilots . We also look for

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opportunities to take our pilots

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outside of the local area to provide

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them more diverse training to places

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like Florida and Nevada to fight and

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train in larger airspaces to maximize

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our training for 4th gen and 5th gen

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aircraft in order to prepare ourselves

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for what we would expect our roles in

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combat to be . One thing that we're

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thinking about constantly from my

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position , not what does Shaw need

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right now , but what's Shaw gonna need

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5 , 10 years down the road . This base

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is still gonna be here 5 years from now ,

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but . The mission's gonna be different

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whatever happens , you know , in the

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world , whatever happens with the Air

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Force , we're gonna be different

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missions . We're gonna be supporting

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different people . We have a number of

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transitions that we've been doing to

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upgrade and modernize the network , the

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cyber , the calm side of Shaw

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innovation , particularly in the field

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that we're in is something we're always

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on the lookout for , right ? This

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network modernization that we just went

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through as a . to to prep us for the

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future is a result of one master

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sergeant largely kind of coming up with

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this plan and thinking through what a

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more optimized network would look like ,

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you know , thinking , OK , what's a

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different way we can do that ? How can

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we speed this up ? What can we automate ?

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how can we make ourselves more flexible

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and more simplified so that we can

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respond more effectively in the future .