US Army, STAFF Sergeant (SSG) Dale Pierce, flight line operator, A Company, 15th Military Intelligence Battalion, 504th MI Brigade, III Corps, performs a final maintenance check on the BAQ-155 Hunter Unmanned Aerial Reconnaissance Vehicle (UARV) before its flight to capture aerial images for the Advanced Warfighting Experiment (AWE) at the National Training Center, Fort Irwin, California. More than 6,000 soldiers took part in the six-week exercise that capped nearly two years of training. The AWE tested 72 initiatives ranging from new computer equipment like the Applique to reorganization of unit structure, 24 March 1997