A typical E-3A mission is nine to 10 hours. FOUR Officer in Charge. This capability is vital and increasingly more important as NATO opens its doors to new partners.
Interoperability is the name of the game.
U.S. Naval Forces Europe contingencies and exercises. I know that you've been working on breaking in this SLAM capability to the theater for the first time. I'm really pleased by what I see by this squadron and by your colleagues who rotate in here. One of the P-3's advantages is its ability to be deployed quickly to respond to world crises, according to VADM Abbot. One of the cases, of course, most recently, was when we sent naval forces from the Mediterranean down into the Central Command.