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Captain Dan Collins on the science 

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officer with the 31st civil support 

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team Delaware National Guard out of 

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Smyrna , Delaware . Uh , we're here 

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today doing a static air load . We're 

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taking some of our larger trucks and 

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trailers that we've never air loaded 

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before and practicing , loading them 

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onto a C 17 . We're doing this in 

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preparation for an upcoming exercise . 

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We wanted to get the ground truth and 

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practice it until you actually try and 

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get these vehicles into an aircraft . 

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You don't really know what you might be 

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overlooking . You know whether it's 

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modifying the approach shoring or the 

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sleeper shoring or some of your 

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procedures with the during the joint 

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inspection . So with the training that 

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we covered today , we got experience 

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with loading and unloading vehicles . 

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We checked some requirements for 

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unloading and downloading these 

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vehicles specifically and for in flight 

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limitations . Uh , we saw there was a 

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few things that weren't perfect for our 

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pubs , and we fix those and , uh , 

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remediate them right away . So we got 

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good training out of it , and we just 

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fix everything . Getting the feedback 

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from the personnel in the attack and 

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the guys from the Third Airlift 

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Squadron and tapping into that 

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expertise has been extremely valuable 

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for us .