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TRAINING AND EDUCATION
Air Force Association award for weather school
Photo by Kemberly Groue
From left, Matthew Albertson and Staff Sgts. Brandon Healy and Jeffrey Hunter,
students in the 335th TRS, use e-Books in the WSR-88D doppler weather operator
manager’s course in the weather training complex Friday.
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By Susan Griggs
Keesler News staff
The 335th Training Squadron’s
weather training flight has
been selected to receive the Air
Force Association’s Theodore
Von Karman Award for 2008.
The annual award honors the
most outstanding contribution to
national defense in the field of
science and engineering.
It’s named for the renowned
Hungarian-American aerodynamacist
and visionary strategic
planner, who, together with Gen
Henry “Hap” Arnold, forged
modern Air Force research and
development.
As the Department of
Defense’s only weather training
schoolhouse, the flight conducted
nine major course rewrites
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and validations using the latest
tools and concepts in weather
forecasting technology.
In addition, Keesler’s weather
training team incorporated Joint
Environmental Toolkit technology
into all aspects of weather
forecasting, greatly enhancing
student training.
The flight, commanded by
Maj. Barry Hunte, researched,
proposed and developed a plan
to incorporate e-Book technology
into two courses, eliminating
more than 20,000 pages of documents
and saving the Air Force
$10,000 dollars each year in
printing costs.
Additionally, the flight was
handpicked to serve as experts
and played a vital role in the success
of six major Air Force
weather forecasting projects.