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    Time and again, I would talk to the radio operators about
    it, and they continued to be very lax in that, so lessons
    learned: Please don't take operators away from MASFs, even
    if you are very close to an AECE. It is not a good thing to
    do at all. Lessons learned: It is very important for each
    element to have autonomy and to be empowered to do the
    things that they feel they need to do. Centralizing
    everything sometimes is not a good idea. You need to
    decentralize as much as possible. Any kind of management,
    any kind of organitzation really needs decentralization and
    autonomy, I think.
    
    S: When you get back into the States and back into the Air
    Force (laughter), if you could change anything you wanted to
    about training, your specialties, to prepare for a situation
    similar to this, what would you chanqe?
    
    M: Being a Reservist, I would change the UTA [unit training
    assembly] formats. The Reservist is expected to perform all
    of the duties and the requirements of an active duty person,
    and we have 24 days a year to do that. We have 2 days a
    month, which makes 24 days a year, to fulfill all of the
    active duty requirements. I think probably we need to look
    at those requirements and think of them in terms of our
    mission and be much more mission oriented. The MASFs need a
    lot of medical training on trauma, physical assessment,
    medications. Providing a paramedic course for medical
    technicians, I think, would be a very good idea. Providing
    very good in services in CHEER [a DOD program--Continuing
    Health Education to Enhance Readiness] programs for nurses
    for trauma and critical care is a very good idea. We need
    
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