 It has been said that the first step toward liberation is to use the power at hand. Video teletraining offers the power to free yourself from the constraints of time and space when delivering just-in-time training and distance learning services. The Army's video teletraining system and its two interrelated components, the satellite education network, SEN, and the teletraining network, TNET, use cutting-edge technology, technology designed to be reliable, versatile, and economical. The combined reach of TNET and SEN is unparalleled. VTT, utilizing an array of military, public, and private gateways, delivers to audiences large and small. Any organization that provides training in educational classes or sends members to distant locations for conferences, meetings, or seminars can benefit from using VTT. And benefits are what VTT is essentially all about. After all, it's not the package, but it's contents that are really important. The primary reason that someone should sign up for VTT and take advantage of its capabilities is that it is timely and it is quick. And you do, in some ways, have a face-to-face connection with a subject matter expert. Overall, the students find it to be very, very effective as far as they are concerned with meeting their needs. The kinds of skills training that we teach really fits very well into their job categories because what we do is we try to target our audience so that we get the people who need the training rather than just filling seats. In encouraging others to use video tele-training, I would like to speak just from my own personal perspective and that is that I have been on the platform and used various means of instruction over the years and I have found that I have as good as or better than rapport with the students and have seen as good as or better learning over video tele-training using two-way audio, two-way video as in the classroom. Video tele-training uses the best of terrestrial and satellite-based technologies to deliver distance learning education and just-in-time training services globally. While you're viewing this presentation, VTT is being used efficiently, effectively and enthusiastically by instructors and students worldwide. The staff here at the Academy of Health Sciences selected video tele-training because of the two-way audio and two-way video feature. It allowed complete interaction between the student and the instructor and the learning was as good or better than the standard classroom instruction. The one primary reason that people should use VTT is that it does cut down on the amount of travel time for both soldiers coming to the school for sustainment training or for us to send our soldiers to the field for training. VTT helps the training professional get the job done. It leads to improved productivity of both the instructor and the student, minimizing related TDY expenses. It allows the instructor for one to not have to be traveling to far sites all the time as part of a mobile training team or something like that. It doesn't make the student have to come to the schoolhouse to get training. They can get it where they are. It allows them to stay with their families, which is very, very important in considering Army values. VTT is responsive. Some unexpected problems crop up that need an immediate solution. Have the experts half a world away, find the answer. During recent deployments, on-site language training through VTT helped our troops accomplish their mission. VTT here at the Academy has proven to be an extremely effective tool in delivering just-in-time training. One example is we taught out a hazards of the desert type of survival course to the cyanide, which was very timely for the troops there. It was not being offered at that time. And it helped save injuries. The most positive impact is the on-demand training. What we're going to do today is talk about video tele-training and the video tele-training network. Being able to say, hey, I need some training here next week and we can provide it. It's just a matter of hooking up the sites, having the students, of course, sending them courseware. But then at the same time, just that on-demand, we're able to do that. In a matter of days, we can train 20, 25 soldiers. VTT is not a one solution fits all. We offer an array of options customized to your distance learning needs. One or two-way video and audio provide unrivaled interactivity. Fixed and deployable systems make training possible in the classroom or in the field. The National Guard Bureau needed to train Blackhawk maintenance units in Kansas and Iowa. Instruction took place in the classroom and on the flight line. And both units trained at the same time. We use VTT here at the Ordnance School in a couple of different ways. One, we provide training to the units, providing subject matter expertise to the maintenance units. Second, we actually receive training from the Army Training Support Center at Fort Hustis, Virginia. Classes in various different staff and faculty subjects. It's a lot of them. For one thing, we don't have to spend a lot of money sending the soldiers to TVY. I, for instance, if we've got 13 soldiers or 100 soldiers out there that need training, we can leave them there at their stations. And we can just broadcast or use the TNES system to teach them long distance. Rapidly changing technologies have created the need for competent and practical distance learning solutions. As it is technologically adept, market driven, boundless in its reach and flexibility and cost effective, video teletraining is the solution. VTT is user friendly. Our list of clients includes the Air Force Reserve Command, TRADOC, the Defense Language Institute, the Office of Personnel Management, the Federal Marshals Service, the Command General Staff College, and the Sergeant Majors Academy. Video teletraining puts the power to deliver training and information in your hands, whether to a global audience, to a conference and a large auditorium, or to a small unit deployed overseas. The power to respond to your client's needs quickly, clearly, and reasonably. The power to get the job done. It's a good system. I mean, especially for distance learning. The most positive impact that VTT has had on training is that the Ordnance Center School is able to reach out to that soldier out in a unit, and provide training that's fairly quick and timely to their needs. Students like the interaction that they get with people from another site. They enjoy the exchange of information. They enjoy meeting new people. They enjoy not having to come to school house from wherever and to have to take time away from their families and their commands. I think the most positive impact is getting the training to the people that need it when they need it. We call it just-at-time training in the military, but they call it learning on demand in higher education. It is what I need, when I need it, and what will help me do the job. VTT frees you. Allows your imagination to soar when providing just-at-time training and distance learning solutions. Video tele-training puts the power in your hands.