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- I am Sergeant Grabulis,
I am a sheet metal

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specialist here with
the first of the 207th.

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I have been working here for about

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four and a half years now.

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I am the only sheet
metallist here in Alaska.

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Since I was a kid, I've
loved working on things.

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I loved, you know, tinkering with cars

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and fabricating and that love of, kind of,

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tinkering stuff grew to
airplanes and aviation side.

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The trick to the trade here is that

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you have to be a
perfectionist in some areas.

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Proper measurements, we
do all of our measurements

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in 30 seconds in even
up to 1/64th of an inch.

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Properly bending metal, you
have to know the metal alloys,

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you have to know the metal hardness,

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you have to know the metal thickness.

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For having the in house
repair that we do here

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it kind of sets us to be our own.

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We can go anywhere, do anything.

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The pressure is high sometimes though.

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With being how I'm the only one left,

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I'm the only one here, I have to,

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kind of, deal with some situations

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where a second pair of
hands would be great.

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But also with the
repairs that we deal with

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being some high strung repairs

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on some major components, it's, you know,

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you got the pilots lives in your hands.