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Operation tech flag: 'lab rats' experience the operational side of the Air Force.(Cover story)
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Citizen Airman
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August 1, 2006
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Copyright informationCOPYRIGHT 2006 Air Force Reserves. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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A wise man once said, "If the only tool you have is a hammer, pretty soon everything starts looking like a nail."
Applying this philosophy to Air Force scientists, if they spent all of their time cooped up in a laboratory, the laboratory would soon become their world and solving laboratory problems would become their only mission in life. But what about the people out in the field who have to use the things they come up with?
Perhaps the problems the scientists see and the solutions they develop would be more useful if they could see the world through the eyes of their "customers," the war fighters.
At least that's what Brig. Gen. Mike McClendon believes. As ...
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