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mhm. Mhm. Okay. Oh, yeah. Mhm. Mhm. Mhm two You. Mm. Yeah. Hello. I'm Lorton Charles, and I want to welcome you to the Lord and Charles Update. Today we're going to talk to a Florida inventor whose invention may bring relief to millions of Americans who suffer from chronic pain.

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We'll also meet with some Florida officials who are eager to land the superconducting supercollider you may have been hearing about and we'll update you on the status of the federal budget. But first, we're going to travel to Northwest Florida, home with the Pensacola Naval Air Station.

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The United States Navy has a proud tradition stretching back to 17 89. That's when Congress established the Department of Navy with Benjamin started as its first secretary. Today, the U. S Navy has nearly 600 ships, including 14 carrier battle groups that give us coverage around the globe.

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This past year, Naval Aviation celebrated its 75th anniversary and the Blue Angels, the Navy's precision flying team, turned 40 years old, 1946. The Blue Angels have performed in over 2500 air shirt. This year, the Blue Angels will begin using the Navy's high performance airplane. The F 18 Hornet.

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Their home base is the Naval Air Station in Pensacola. The base spreads out over 16,500 acres and includes the Technical Training Center at Corey Station and the Education and Training Program Development Center. The base employs more than 9000 civilians and another 12,000 military personnel. It's here at Pensacola that young naval aviators come to earn their coveted gold wings.

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In 1944 during the height of World War Two, more than 12,000 young pilots were trained here. Since then, the Navy base has become the training command headquarters for the Navy. The U. S s Lexington, the Navy's only full time training aircraft carrier, is also stationed here at Pensacola.

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The Lexington is the oldest aircraft carry in the U. S Navy and the only active carrier of the Essex class. She was commissioned in 1943. This is actually the fifth ship to be given the name Lexington. The first was a 16 gun brig purchased by the Continental Congress from the French during the War of Independence in 17 76.

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Nicknamed the Blue Ghost, the current Lexington destroyed over 850 planes and sank or damaged more than 900,000 tons of enemy shipping during World War Two. After VJ Day and the end of World War Two, the Lexington was decommissioned and placed in the Reserve Fleet, only to be recalled at the outbreak of the Korean conflict.

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She went through an extensive modernization process, which included the installation of a new angle debt. This deck allows planes to land and take off at the same time without interfering with each other. In late 1962 after the Cuban missile crisis, the Lexx replaced the USS Antietam as the Navy's training carrier.

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Navy Lore says the Blue Ghost is unsinkable, and she's also the only carrier with a wooden flight deck. When the Lex was commissioned 44 years ago, the flight deck was covered with teak wood. Later, the deck was resurfaced with hickory and other assorted woods and covered with a non skid surface, and that deck is now being slowly replaced by metal and covered with rubber and a non skid rubber ized code.

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The Lexington's Captain Hayward Sprouse, has a museum on board the ship. This is of course, of course, is a second license. The first Lexington was sunk on November 8th, about 16. 30 in the afternoon in the Battle of the Coral Sea. There's a picture right there taking about 40 minutes before the ship was bombed and torpedoes.

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Actually, she was torpedo by aviation torpedoes. It's pictures like that in books such as this that I think are very important that we we preserve. This is my museum, right? And we have collected from corners and bits and pieces of places and underneath tables and in dis drawers, all sorts of memorabilia that are part of the ship.

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And I think I deserve to be shown to the people. So every opportunity I get, I try to bring someone in here and show them a little of the history of the only aircraft carrier we have 40 World War two. It's the only one to be.

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The rest of them are either silver scrap are museums. Mm. But this is the only one that's still doing her job. Several stories above the museum is the bridge. From here, you get a good idea of the ship size and the Lexus steered from here. These are the our positions.

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The last time we came in, we swung a little bit wide here, Uh, we come in, but that's a very narrow in there. Very harbored Evening is going to give you. Yes, sir. We have 45 40 to 50 ft all the way through here. The width.

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I'm sure there will be some dredging along here and some up in here. He made this an easier turn down in here. We have a very good water once you get some current and everything. Oh, yes, around there. Yes, sir. Our draft is about 26 27 ft when we come back after an operating period, so there's plenty of water for us.

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What I'm more concerned about is the current. I'd like to come in on slack water with no more than one, not of either AB or Flood Tide. The Lexington is a little smaller than the Navy's new super carriers, but not by all that much. She's still longer than three football fields.

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In the book The Right Stuff, author Tom Wolfe referred to the deck of a carrier as a skillet, a frying pan smeared with oil and skid marks consumed in roars, flames horrible shuttering shrieks and fraction ng impacts while aboard. I talked to several young naval pilots.

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They talked about what it was really like to land on a carrier, knowing that the only thing to keep you from going over the edge is a cable stretched across the flight deck. Are you waiting for that cable to catch you? You know, when you're throwing that, you're your train's just kind of do the procedures, whatever it takes, just do the procedures.

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And really, what you're doing is just what basically comes naturally just going through your procedures until you you kind of get a feel as to what's going on. I really don't You're not really, uh it seemed to know what's happening until after a couple of passes.

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Then you say Okay, now I know now you can feel the plane starting to move and get the feel of it. But Lieutenant Doug Clark is one of the officers responsible for training our naval pilots. He gave me a brief rundown on the instruction a young naval aviator would need to complete before an assignment to the fleet position.

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After the initial training, some of them get split off and Luis case. He wants to go out to a third majority of and have gone on to VT. 86 which is the advanced squadron, and they received the wings out of that. Well, that is you have carrier training to know, sir, Not because because of what you're doing, you're going to go through the P three.

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Most of naval flight officers they don't receive. They don't actually go the boat, any kind of carrier training until they actually get out to the rag or out to the Fleet Rags Replacement Air Group, where we transition to the aircraft were flying in the fleet. We are.

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Mission here is primarily developing just the basic air work and crew concept and maybe at VT. 86 on the Advanced Tactics. They utilize the radar, low level visual navigation. But we don't actually go to the boat until we actually get out to the rag to the fleet.

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Unlike the student pilots, they have to come out here and perform at an early age, so it's colorful for them. Near the Lexington are 58 buildings where planes that land owned carriers are reworked, repaired and overhaul the naval air rework facility, or narf, as it's called in Pensacola, is one of the Navy's lead facilities in aircraft repair and maintenance.

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It's also the Navy's largest industrial facility in our state, in the largest employer in northwest Florida. It is a staff of more than 3650 civilian and military personnel. The facility provides the technical services and maintenance for several types of fixed and rotary wing aircraft. What makes Narf unique is that it uses civilian personnel to perform all of its maintenance functions.

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These men and women work hard to keep our pilots in the air, and they have years and years of experience, many of those years being in the service themselves, and they do a tremendous job. Many of the aircraft that come to North just need minor repairs, but in some cases they need much more.

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In the case of a complete overhaul, they literally tear the aircraft apart and start from scratch. Each part is checked for where and any other type of damage that may have occurred during normal use. Commodore James Roy, head of Training Air Wing six, talked about some of the work that takes place in the North facility.

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The guy will lend an airplane out of Chairman Field a perfectly good flyable airplane that's reaching the end of its service life extension or a service life period. And they'll hook a tractor to it. Uh, pull it down the toe way right here to North, and they'll completely disassemble.

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The engine comes out. They'll they'll examine this thing with micrometers microscopes, nondestructive testing, inspection, avionics, repair engine repair. Strip it down. As I said, Take care of the corrosion. Replace avionics parts, fixed wire bundles. Put a new engine in it, take it out, wash it, repainted.

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Same tractor will tow it back out to Sherman Field. Some guy out there will test fly it and then delivered to the fleet. And in 90 days, 120 days, whatever the cycle is for the specific aircraft you get, literally get a brand new airplane back. It smells new.

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It looks new. Slam the doors. It's just like a new car kicked the tires. It's fabulous. The people who work at North turn out more than 250 repaired aircraft each year. In addition to its role as a maintenance facility, North is also capable of modifying and converting aircraft and repairing major or minor crash damage.

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The facility also has the ability to handle nearly 8000 different parts and assemblies in the Component reworked program. This operation turns out more than 48,000 aeronautical components, from gaskets to wire bundles each year. Since North not only services fixed wing aircraft helicopters as well, the facility has its own heliport.

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Some of the aircraft serviced at North include the A four jet, the H three and H 53 the S H 60 B helicopters for the Navy Marine Corps. And the Air Force in our facility helps keep aircraft in top shape at all time. With its field teams on call 24 hours a day, personnel are ready to travel to ships and air stations around the world to repair and service the Navy's aircraft.

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Well, Navy pilots undergo some vigorous training at another location at the Pensacola base. These young naval aviators are being checked out in the Dilbert Dunker, a crash simulator. This device simulates a crash over water. Student pilots have to pass this test if they want to stay in flight training and Periodically, all pilots must return to be re certified on the simulators.

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Not only do pilots have to pass the Dilbert dunker, they also must qualify on this machine, which simulates a helicopter crack. Many pilots think this is about as tough as it gets. Palace not only have to ride this one out, they have to do it. Blindfolded The pilots lineup for instruction before they step into the simulator.

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After climbing up the tall ladder leading to the crew compartment, the pilots step in and buckle up. Last minute instructions are given before the compartment is dropped. One of the trainers explain the kind of rise of pilot gets in order to qualify again. It depends on what type of aircraft some of the older pilots fly determines which kind of role they get.

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If they fly strictly helicopters, they get a complete 180 degree rolls either direction and then if they fly, if their jet pilots, they get different types of rides and we train even the jet pilots in this particular device. Our young men and women are tough and well trained, and they have to be our nation's security depends on them Pensacola Naval Air Station plays an important role in our country's defense posture, and I congratulate the men and women, military and civilian as well.

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For a job well done, we'll be right back. Battery D had been in the trenches for eight months of the bloodiest fighting in our country's history. They were all volunteers. They left their jobs and sweethearts to risk their lives on the fields of France. There, Captain was a volunteer to his name was Harry Truman.

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Pharmacist has been signed, sir. It's over. If Truman had worked for you, would you have given him time off to serve his country? Today, we need the National Guard and Reserve more than ever protect their future while they protect yours. More than 35 million Americans suffer from chronic pain in one form or another and pay $50 billion each year for treatment.

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Arthritis alone affects approximately 21 million Americans, with about 600,000 new cases reported each year. Well, thanks to an inventor from Opa Locka, Florida, there may be some relief in sight. It comes in the form of a special garment designed to ease pain and allow movement. It's called the trans cutaneous transducer garment, or TTG.

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You've probably heard how electrodes are sometimes used to manage and reduce pain. The TTG system works on the same principle, except there are any wires or self adhesive electrodes. That's the beauty of this new device. Normally, electrodes would be attached to the skin and send a small electric stimulus to the area where the pain is greatest.

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That small electric shock blocks out the patient's pain, but the electrodes often cause skin irritation and won't stick right. The TTG garment has done away with the use of the self adhesive electrodes has made the system easier to use. Herb Granick is the inventor of the TTG.

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Well, you know, uh, Senate task. Eventually, the field of electrical stimulation has utilized these types of stimulators in the past for the purposes of blocking pain and for the purposes of re educating muscle function. And the problem has always been that the compliance problems in utilizing these machines sometimes have been greater than the need of using them.

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So what we did was formulated system whereby we've eliminated the compliance problems by incorporating conductive cloth into clothing and eliminating the individual electrodes. The lead wires, the adhesive tapes and the compliance problems that go with them. And this enables a person with their therapist in conjunction with their clinician and doctor, too.

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Not only do therapy in a clinical setting, but to go home and to do an augment the therapy that they're doing clinically. And it gives them an independence, which they previously didn't have before. In addition to pain management, the TTG has other uses as well. How will it help somebody that's paralyzed?

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Well, when you when you when you go through a rehabilitation program and you start treating people what you want to do, basically is considered the use of electrical stimulation in order to build up atrophied muscle. Okay. And once you get that person to the point that you've built those muscles up, you've built up some of the cardiovascular system.

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You would then want to put them into electrically conductive clothing. What we call a trance, Catania's Transducer Garment and hook up a portable computer or electrical stimulator that would sequentially stimulate their muscles and enable them to move would enable them to move. Yes, yes, Dr. Jeanene has been working with a number of institutions around the country where we've we've had people who are paraplegic and quadriplegic walking anywhere from a half a mile to seven miles.

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Ah, with the use of these devices, Dr. Margaret Giannini is director of the Veterans Administration Research and Development Service. She's been working with Herb Granik and the TTG garment doctor. Giannini emphasized the importance of the new invention and the impact it will have on the lives of disabled veterans.

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I think what's so important it are also the other spillovers that come from this. If you get one to stand, you avoid many other problems, whether you're quadriplegic or paraplegic, such as osteoporosis and the tendency towards fractures. UH, pressure sores, which cost us if we just to treat one pressure sore a year is about $50,000 so that we can avoid that.

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At least it's if you think in dollars and cents. It's cost effective, but more than that, it gives this individual self confidence and an image of themselves that he really is like everybody else. The new government was displayed at the national meeting of Disabled American Veterans in Washington.

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George Buyer, a quadriplegic, was at the meeting. He's in a research program at Wright State University in Ohio and has been using the TTG garment for a year. George said that the TTG has not only helped him to walk, but it's also been a psychological boost as well.

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It's been great psychologically and to say nothing physically helped build me up. It's built up my cardiovascular system. Um, I'm nearly to the point where an able bodied person would be. That's been the biggest help. Chronic pain can really limit a person's mobility and lifestyle, but you can't give up even when it seems like the odds are against you.

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I suppose. I just tell them that this proves that there is hope. I always knew that someday I would walk again, and this has just brought me one step closer to that, and I don't think anybody should give up. The TTG garment is now available through the Veterans Administration for certain veterans suffering from chronic pain and other muscular disorders.

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More information is available by contacting your nearest veterans hospital or of a representative. We've been hearing a lot in the past few weeks about the supercollider. It's a mammoth project, and one we hope to get for our state. It will be the largest nuclear accelerator in the world, and it will open new frontiers and research in physics.

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The entire supercollider complex will cover over 16,000 acres and encircle about 200 square miles. The supercollider will be located in a racetrack shaped tunnel 52 miles in circumference. Inside the tunnel, which will be big enough to drive a car through, will be about 10 0 superconducting magnets.

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The electromagnets will be set to focus their beams of protons against each other. The beams will then be accelerated to nearly the speed of light and forced to collide head on. With the energy of 40 trillion votes, this collision is expected to create new never before seen subatomic particles, and these particles will then be analyzed.

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As our scientists delve deeper into the study of physics and medicine, the clatter could open up a whole new frontier of science. The Fermi Nuclear Accelerator is in Illinois, and it's similar to the proposed supercollider, but much smaller firms. Accelerators ring only measures four miles around, compared to the 52 mile ring of the giant project now in the planning stages, The research done at the Fermilab is just a fraction of the potential promised by the new supercollider.

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Florida realizes what having the supercollider in our state could mean to our economy and scientific community. Construction of the new supercollider complex will create jobs and open fresh avenues of knowledge within our universities and science communities. The Department of Energy estimates the entire facility will cost almost $4.5 billion to build.

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The new supercollider will pump more than $245 million into the local community each year through its annual operating cost. Our state and local officials are putting together a proposal to obtain the supercollider for Florida. The Legislature has approved nearly $2 million for Florida site preparation, and the state believes it needs more time to complete its bid.

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We discussed our position in a meeting in my office with Dr Alvin Trevor Piece, the director of the high energy physics for the Department of Energy. David Rush, chairman of the Governor's High Tech Council, wanted to know if the Department of Energy would delay the application deadline.

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Is there any chance of initially as we understood, it was scheduled to be responded to in November and then all of a sudden short response time came up. Would there be any chance of extending that to allow for the necessary work that has to be done in order to respond properly?

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That wave made an made some investigations into the amount of work required to complete a proposal. We believe that four months is inadequate period of time. We don't have any plans to extend that period. We're trying. We're trying to do this in a way that's fair, to be fair to everyone.

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And some some states have indicated that they believe the time is too short and others have told us that they don't think the time is too short and that we shouldn't extend it. So we kind of are in Iraq and a hard place problem. We're not sure which of these voices we should listen to.

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And if we make any changes, then we run the risk of sort of rupturing the integrity of the um this selection process in that that would then perhaps give somebody a basis for objection, which would then later be turned into a protest that would vacate the secretary's decision next July or a year from July.

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We also wanted to know what the financial responsibility would be for Florida if we were selected as the site. What What level of financial cooperation is expected of each state beyond the donation of the of the land for the site selection? And And what will the how will that availability of financing influence the site selection?

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Well, clearly influence it. And this discussion came up this afternoon in the uh huh authorization committee hearings here in the Senate with Senator Domenici asking some of these questions. The president, in approving this project for the administration to come forward, said that he was expected that there would be maximum cost sharing from state and local governments from foreign governments and from the private sector, and the Department of Energy is to try to seek that.

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So we have tried to write the proposal in such a way as to obtain the maximum cost sharing, and and we will try to do so and, uh, the other sectors through other other means. Through the through the foreign governments. We have to go out and make separate diplomatic in grace, but we've tried to balance this off so that, in effect, it is not something where the site can simply be bought.

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Uh, if it is unsuitable, it has to have certain technical qualifications, their technical qualifications and cost considerations. And the two obviously have an interplay, as does the life cycle costs. So the analysis will include a 25 year run time life cycle cost estimate of what it would be like.

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The information and research gathered by the use of the supercollider would have benefits for the private sector as well. Advancements in cancer research and nuclear medicine would be one of the spin offs from the collider. Some say the whole new generation of superconducting magnets, like the ones that would be used in the collider, could enable trains to operate at speeds close to 300 miles an hour.

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Since our meeting, Florida's moved ahead and its work to win the super collider Nassau County has been selected as our proposed site. The supercollider is a project that I support, and one I hope Florida wins. The Department of Energy will announce the list of state finalists on December 15th, but the winner won't be selected until January of 1989.

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When we return, we'll have an update on the status of the federal budget. Guess where Bill is. Blue Chip bill. Gotta be Wall Street. No, He joined the Peace Corps. I thought that went out with the sixties Peace Corps. It's creating food systems in Africa, turning deserts back into forests and fighting malaria.

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In Asia. It's hands on and hats off. It's making a friend. It's been tough. But for 25 years, the Peace Corps has been making a difference in the world. Bill, I can't believe it. Peace Corps. The toughest job you'll ever love on each of our programs, we tried to look at a different stage of the federal budget process.

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We've seen the president submit his plan, and we've listened to the witnesses, explained the details during hearings of the Senate Budget Committee and our last program. The committee was just starting what we call Marca. Actually, it's a pretty good name for the process. It's something like what a tailor does when he chalks the new clothes and fits him to different taste.

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Let me tell you what happened. Over a period of 10 days, the committee met 16 times in markup as we worked out a budget plan to present to the Senate. Finally, early in April, the committee approved the plan. Our for this chairman. Here's the key feature of the committee budget plan.

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For the coming year alone, it saves $37 billion and over the next four years, the total saving add up to $282 billion. That means we'll have to borrow a lot less money, and it means it was. Some discipline will be able to keep making investments in the programs like education, science and job training that will shape our future.

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The next step is for the Senate itself to debate the plan that's been offered. The law sets aside 50 hours to do the work, and that process alone can take many days. It's a tough process, but it's supposed to be. There's plenty of money involved in a lot of states.

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In fact, what we're talking about when we debate the budget is the future of the country itself. On our next program, I'll tell you how it all turned out in the Senate and give you an idea of what comes next. I'm Lord and Childs. I hope you'll join us again for the Lord and Child's update.

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Yeah. Mhm. Yeah. Do you do? Mhm. Yeah. Uh huh. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Mhm. Coming up on the Lawton Child's update, we'll talk to a Florida inventor whose invention may bring relief to millions of Americans who suffer chronic pain. We'll also meet with some Florida officials eager to land the new superconducting supercollider, and we'll update you on the status of the federal budget.

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I'm Senator Lawton Child's. I hope you'll join me.