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C-130 crews from the 154th Training Squadron, the Arkansas Air National Guard unit at Little Rock AFB, are expected to convert Walnut Ridge, a small airport in central Arkansas, into a night vision goggle, or NVG, training site as early as October. The conversion resulted from a change to the C-130 Instructor School training syllabus. Walnut Ridge, which is twenty minutes flying time from Little Rock, offers a low-traffic, low-light environment for NVG training. It was established in 1942 to train Army Air Forces pilots during World War II. More than 5,300 pilots who had already completed primary flight training flew Vultee BT-13 and ?BT-15 basic trainers at Walnut Ridge during the war.
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