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Look at that . So

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The way soldiers in the National Guard

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become a drone pilot like with myself ,

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I became or I was asked to go to an

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operators course for it . Uh , it was a

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5 day course at Camp Ripley , Minnesota ,

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so I went through it . They break it

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down very easily like this is RV-28 .

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Here's all the information you know

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about operating it , its capabilities ,

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things like that . And then we went and

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actually started doing hands-on

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training day 23 , and 4 , and day 5 was

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the test out . There's a lot of folks

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out there in the civilian world who are

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doing this already , so what that means

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to me is how can we leverage some of

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the knowledge that's already out there

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and some of the TTPs that are being

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developed to make us better on the army

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side and then also on the army side ,

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how can we , can we help soldiers ? Hey ,

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you want to be a drone pilot because

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you're looking at going into that field

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and you're a civilian . Inside , heck

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yeah , we're going to send you to

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school . We're going to develop you as

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a as a pilot here so that you can go

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out and make money in your civilian

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side . So I mean on a modern

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battlefield today we're seeing folks

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putting together , buying commercial

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off the shelf drones from wherever ,

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getting them , you know , shipped

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overseas , and you know they're flying

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them great distances . That's kind of

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what we're seeing right now and we need

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to , we need to catch up with that

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technology and then . You know , do

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what we do in the United States is ,

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you know , exceed that technology to ,

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to our benefit . So some key

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capabilities of RT28 , uh , it's mainly

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just for reconnaissance right now . We

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have about 12 different thermal optics .

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So you know , if we were looking for

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anything specific like equipment ,

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personnel , things like that , we can

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cycle through different heat sections

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and be able to identify them , take

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pictures of those , uh , record them .

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So if there's like any activity . In

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the recorder to see what kind of

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training are they conducting , what

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kind of weapons do they have , you know ,

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how are they utilizing this weapon ,

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how do they utilize their equipment ,

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and also having those thermal

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capabilities we can fly at night ,

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which makes it a lot harder to detect ,

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especially with how high we can fly .

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Being able to fly at that height and

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especially at night makes it harder to

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detect and just increases our ability

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to gain good intelligence . We're

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learning our capabilities , our

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capacity . And we're just going to take

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that into the future , but when it

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comes to drill weekends , me and a few

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others only being the only current

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operators to fly them , so we're

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training a lot of soldiers every month

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just get them up in there basic

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operating procedures , just how to

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utilize it , how to troubleshoot , how

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to do it . So it's becoming a pretty ,

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I would say a monthly basis that we're

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doing this , being able to get up in

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the air and fly , it's something

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different that you don't get to do all

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the time , especially on a day to day

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basis .

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terrified of it .