Mike Durant
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Yeah.
It's the curriculum and theβ So you're the first one that actually went through a pipeline.
In Green Platoon, yes.
Now, there's been training before, obviously, but it was all sort of ad hoc, right?
Yeah.
But we were the first ones to actually go through Green Platoon.
I guess so.
I guess you could say that.
Right on.
And I'm a world record holder.
So.
Like I said, it wasn't a huge challenge for me.
Navigation's hard.
You know, when you're in the MVGs and there's not a lot of terrain to deal with, which is pretty much the case in this part of the country.
I mean, there's hills, but when you're up at a couple hundred feet, the hills don't pop out like they do when you're on the ground.
The navigation is a bit of a challenge.
If there's anything I'm not great at, I would say it's land navigation.
But we were getting technology in the cockpit that was a huge help.
We had Omega systems at the time, which are rudimentary versions of GPS.
They're not using satellites, but it's basically a digital navigation capability.