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  • Desert Rat Testament, Episode 27

    Desert Rat Testament, Episode 27
    2024/10/30
    Host Mark Schauer talks with Col. (ret) Stephen Kreider, who was commander of U.S. Army Yuma Proving Ground from 2003 to 2006. After a 28-year Army career, he served as Director of the Future Combat System Combined Test Organization and as the Army’s Program Executive Officer of Intelligence, Electronic Warfare and Sensors. A West Point graduate, in 2023 he was inducted into the Command, Control, Computers, Communications, Cyber, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (C5ISR) Hall of Fame.
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    12 分
  • Desert Rat Testament, Episode 26

    Desert Rat Testament, Episode 26
    2024/09/26
    Host Mark Schauer talks with Col. (ret) John Bullington, who was commander of U.S. Army Yuma Proving Ground from 2006 to 2009. After a 32-year Army career, he served as Assistant Director of the Arizona Game and Fish Department for nine years before retiring to Arkansas.
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    15 分
  • Desert Rat Testament, Episode 25

    Desert Rat Testament, Episode 25
    2024/08/27
    Host Mark Schauer talks by phone with Col. (ret) Reed Young, who served as commander of U.S. Army Yuma Proving Ground from 2011 to 2014, which included the busiest test workload year in the post's history. Today, Young is the Program Manager for Robotics and Autonomy at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory.
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    16 分
  • Desert Rat Testament, Episode 24

    Desert Rat Testament, Episode 24
    2024/07/30
    Host Mark Schauer talks with Teri Womack, who from 1986 to 2019 worked in a variety of positions at Yuma Proving Ground, from an administrative assistant at the Systems Test Branch to her final post as a marketing specialist working in the public affairs office. She was the primary escort on years of public bus tours of the proving ground done in conjunction with the Yuma Visitor’s Bureau.
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    10 分
  • Desert Rat Testament, Episode 23

    Desert Rat Testament, Episode 23
    2024/06/27
    Host Mark Schauer talks with Maj. (ret) James Branch, whose 22 years in the Army included serving at the Military Freefall School at Yuma Proving Ground from 2011 to 2013, first as executive officer, then as commander. Today he is the Senior Army Instructor for Yuma County, Arizona's first Army Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps program.
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    17 分
  • Desert Rat Testament, Episode 22

    Desert Rat Testament, Episode 22
    2024/05/29
    Host Ana Henderson talks with Peter Efroymson, who worked at U.S. Army Yuma Proving Ground (YPG) as a firefighter and 911 emergency dispatcher from 1993 to 2024. Hear as he recounts his contributions and memories about his time responding to emergencies in and around YPG.
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    20 分
  • Desert Rat Testament, Episode 21

    Desert Rat Testament, Episode 21
    2024/04/30
    In this episode of Desert Rat Testament hear Alan Pumphrey, an officer who served as post adjutant at Yuma Proving Ground in the early 1980s who recently returned to visit for the first time in more than four decades. Hear as he recounts his memories of Cold War-era YPG with host Ana Henderson.
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    12 分
  • Desert Rat Testament, Episode 20

    Desert Rat Testament, Episode 20
    2024/03/28
    Host Mark Schauer talks with Minerva Peters, whose Department of the Army career began in 1985. After 15 years working as an operations research analyst with the Army’s Operational Test and Evaluation Command, she began working at Yuma Proving Ground in 2000. Attracting attention for her work on test programs for the Crusader self-propelled howitzer and Stryker combat vehicle, in 2006 she was made head of a newly established process improvement office. She became YPG’s Chief of Staff in 2015, the position she retired from in March 2024.
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    17 分