Word: nonpilot
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Naval Reserve commander who just completed one of his two regulation training weeks a year, he is also Secretary of the Navy. But as the Reserve bomber-navigator on an A- 6 attack plane at Oceana Naval Air Station in Virginia Beach, Va., Lehman took the right-hand, nonpilot seat on training missions. He also spent time at "deck-plate level," getting a feel for the concerns of ordinary seamen and petty officers. The Secretary acts on the gripes too. After a training week earlier this year, Lehman ordered an investigation into whether some A-6 squadrons should be modified...