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“Every time we go out to sea, we get a chance to train, qualify, and gain more experience to make ourselves ready for the fight,” said Chief Aviation Boatswain’s Mate (Fuels) Joshua Faulds. “That’s what we are doing out here; we are training like we fight so we can fight like we’ve trained when called upon.”
The Sailors of air department are training on the electromagnetic aircraft launching system (EMALS) and the advanced arresting gear (AAG). Lt. Cmdr. Jamie Roman, Ford’s flight deck handler, said this Independent Steaming Exercise (ISE) is the most important to date.
“ISE-2 has been a practice run for us, which is an opportunity most ships don’t get,” said Roman. “Most ships coming into ISE come right from the shipyard into flight deck certification. So for us it’s been a great advantage where we can actually practice for ISE-3 and flight deck certification.”
This practice run allows for the naval aviation community to be sure the Ford can support the mission, said Roman. Testing the new technology underway is necessary to ensure that Ford can sustain flight operations with fixed-wing aircraft.
“During the next underway, we’re going to be certifying our flight deck,” said Aviation Boatswain’s Mate (Handling) 2nd Class Hannibal Johnson-Bey. “We need qualified, knowledgeable, and read-to-go junior airmen to get the aircraft off the elevators expeditiously. We have a lot of junior airmen who are ready to learn and we need to train them the best we can so they can kick some butt.”
Roman said that ISE-2 is a good chance for the flight deck crew to work out any bugs from any scenario the crew might face during certification. Normally those issues aren’t addressed until certification is in progress, but it takes more than just air department to make it happen.
“It takes an entire team, the entire ship. It’s not just an air department role. Everybody plays a role in launching and recovering aircraft. I really think that for the entire ship that ISE-3 is going to bring the ship to life and everybody plays a role in that. I think this period here kind of gave us a taste of how that will look and ISE-3 will bring the entire team together.”
| Date Taken: | 10.05.2017 |
| Date Posted: | 11.13.2017 10:30 |
| Story ID: | 255113 |
| Location: | AT SEA |
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