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So what was the function of the board exactly in relationship to the --

To the program?

Yes.

Good question. We were a sounding board for what they were doing. They had a military board as well as a civilian board, if you will. That is incorrect. They had a military advisory group that met with them because it was the military's money. But the military didn't control the program. The military gave RAND a budget and RAND decided how best to spend that money that would benefit the future of the Air Force.

Remember, when the war was over we had in the Air Force the strongest military machine that had ever existed in the history of the world. And the aviators didn't know where to fly, you know, they didn't know what to do with their power.

Yes. Yes. That whole network.

So that RAND did a lot of thinking. It came by the label of a think tank quite legitimately. The Air Force had the organization and the skill. It didn't have someone looking back and taking the long look at what you were going to do with that manpower and ability in the world. So that RAND was just one of the resources to be utilized in thinking about where the military was going. So for structure, planning, all those things were looked