Amanda Towner
Amanda Towner writes news articles for the Halldale Group’s website as well as CAT and MST Magazines. She studied English and Creative Writing at Stetson University, where she became a Sullivan Scholar for her work. Her writing covers several topics including journalism and storytelling, and is featured in several publications.
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The investment into the Whinny Hill, Catterick, training area’s urban operations training facility has created a more challenging training environment for the armed forces and emergency services personnel who use it. The upgrade has created a more realistic environment for troops carrying out modern day military training in the... 2 April 2019
Organis GmbH launched an economic version of its high-fidelity lung simulators TestChest. The new TestChest-light is built on the same platform and provides the same mechanical and physiological features like its other version but at a significantly reduced price tag. Simulation-based medical training thus becomes affordable for all intensive... 2 April 2019
VA Airline Training is to become the launch customer for Multi Pilot Simulations’ (MPS) forthcoming Airbus A320neo. The agreement was made on the same day that VA officially took ownership of its first MPS-built Airbus simulator – an A320ceo – at its Cambridge Airport Training Centre, following a nine-day... 2 April 2019
Sponsored Content You’re Invited: You are invited to participate in the 3rd annual Military Virtual Training & Simulation Summit, occurring on May 22-23, 2019 at the Mary M Gates Learning Center in Alexandria, VA. This year’s summit is designed to bring together senior DoD officials, military leaders, academia and... 1 April 2019
MS&T Europe Editor Dim Jones’ unique insight. Six months after it was planned for a contract award and less than a year from when the programme was to have commenced training, the UK MoD announced that it has suspended its Air Support for Defence Operational Training (ASDOT programme) without... 1 April 2019
Meggitt Training Systems is fulfilling five delivery orders that form part of a vital U.S. Army combat skills training program for American and allied warfighters. The $4.26-million in orders, awarded by Tank-automotive & Armaments Command during the latter half of 2018 and being installed in 2019, are part of... 1 April 2019
Soldiers from the Wyoming Army National Guard's C Company, 1st Battalion, 297th Infantry Regiment (Forward) were the first to try out the new test at Camp Guernsey Joint Training Center as part of pre-deployment training that will require them to conduct the proposed analysis two more times this year. 1 April 2019
SonoSim has released new transabdominal and transvaginal real-patient scanning cases in the Advanced GYN Malignant Adnexal Conditions Module: Advanced Clinical Module. New pathologies include: dermoid, germ cell tumor, hemorrhagic corpus luteum, endometrioma, and multi-locular cancerous cystic lesion. This SonoSim Advanced Clinical Module overviews both pre- and postmenopausal adnexal anatomy... 1 April 2019
Simloc has achieved it’s quality certification under the seal ISO 9001 2015. The certification obtained, based on the International policy ISO 9001, consists of developing, starting up and improving the efficiency of a quality management system to increase client satisfaction by means of fulfilment of it’s requirements. With that... 1 April 2019
U.S. Tactical Air Control Party (TACP) airman participated with the Royal Thai Air Force Combat Control Team (CCT) in the Cope Tiger 2019 exercise. The opportunity for the two TACPs from the 116th Air Support Operations Squadron from the Washington Air National Guard, to execute a close air support... 1 April 2019
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