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S: Is there any other item or topic that you would like to
cover in this interview that perhaps I haven't triggered
with my questions?

M: I think in the future we will be doing more and more of this
stuff in various parts of the world, so enters that
possibility. I would like to see a body of airfield
management specialists and some very good officers who can
train themselves to walk into a situation and apply some
common sense to an operation to make it work right.
Operating an airfield is not too difficult, but it gets
complicated at times, and there are lots and lots of things
to coordinate and to integrate. There are just lots of
things to look out for. The experiencet helps.

I wouldn't want to say how that training could be
accomplished or how that is done at this time. There are
probably several methods, but it is certainly something the
Air Force, and especially Tactical Air Command, needs to
look at. I would like to see a book written on how to do
it. I think MAC does a very good job setting up their ALCCs
[Airlift Control Center] at the various bases, and that may
provide a base line to start from; how the ALCC command and
control system, how their marshaling yards--they basically
know what they are going to do before they get there. They
have a plan; they have a method. I'm not sure TAC has that,
but that is the way to do it.

S: Thank you very much, Captain McManus, for your time and your
thoughts.

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