Twins helping replicate 3D technology

GULFPORT, Miss. - Twins serving in the military is not uncommon, but not many have been able to leverage their family ties to further advance their units. For the Vetere twin brothers, they are leveraging each other's experience in their different units to initiate and implement additive manufacturing (3D printing) for those units. Navy Lt. Adam Vetere and Marine Corps 1st Lt. Mark Vetere, are natives of Andover, Mass. Adam is currently serving as a Civil Engineer Corps officer assigned to Naval Mobile Construction Battalion (NMCB) 1 and is working to implement 3D manufacturing into daily operations. Mark, currently assigned to Marine Aviation Logistics Squadron 31 at Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort, S.C., has been implementing additive manufacturing there for nearly two years. Now, Adam is planning to implement the technology in Gulfport. With Mark's team experience, the opportunity presented itself for NMCB-1 to send their additive manufacturing team to Beaufort to discuss best practices, learn about printing capabilities, training programs and new policy being implemented into the different services. “We were able to leverage our close relationship as twins to be able to skip passed a lot of the formalities and get straight to business,” said Adam. “It was eye-opening,” said Walker. “It gave us ideas … (and) opens up great potential for future interoperability.” The brothers both graduated from Naval Academy in 2015. (Source: NMCB-1 09/30/19) https://www.navy.mil/submit/display.asp?story_id=111039&utm_source=phplist3726&utm_medium=email&utm_content=text&utm_campaign=Headlines