Two points - First, the fact that she's in the left seat doesn't imply she's
the PPC. Seat rotation is quite routine in the VP community. Second, as a
former VP Commanding Officer, we always tried to have at least one crew for
a first tour (read LTJG) PPC in the P3. Earlier in the twelve plane SP-2H
outfits, we frequently had two or sometimes three first-tour guys with
crews.