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NTSA Yearbook 2001 - Industry Perspective
NTSA Yearbook 2001 | Industry Perspective | Yearbook Advertisers
Training Industry to Work ‘Harder Than Ever’
by Rear Adm. Fred Lewis
The
atrocities of September 11, 2001, have left all of us in the United States
deeply shaken and will most likely profoundly change the lives of each
and every one of us.
At the moment, all of us are struggling to return to normalcy, but it’s
difficult to understand that the future most likely holds things that
will be far from normal.
Yet, we in the training systems industry still have a job to do that is
far and away more important now than ever before. As Americans, we are
determined to seek retribution for the senseless acts of barbarism committed
against us, and our national leadership and indeed most of the nations
of the civilized world are developing plans to firmly respond. That response
will, of course, fall to the military services to carry out, and it is
to the military forces-all the soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines who
will be involved-to whom we need to rededicate ourselves.
As all of us in the training systems business gather together at our
annual I/ ITSEC event, we must keep the rededication drive foremost in
our minds. It is not the time to fall back. It is a time to move resolutely
forward. I salute all of you who journeyed from near and far to be here.
It took immense courage on the part of some, but we all understand that
we cannot allow the cowards who perpetrated the September 11 horror to
dictate how we live and do our business. It is the business of enabling
realistic and effective training that we are all about.
We have training systems in the field and in development that are very
good, but they could be better. We deliver systems most often on schedule,
but we can deliver them earlier. In short, we have done a good job, but
I believe we can do better. It is the betterment of what we do as an industry
that I seek especially now given the crisis facing our Nation. It is time
for us to pull together, to show the strength of our resolve, to work
harder than ever before, and to provide our military with the training
systems that will ensure their readiness to go in harm’s way, to
fight and to win.
Fred Lewis is the Executive Director of the National Training Systems Association, in Arlington, Va.
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