WEBVTT 00:01.180 --> 00:03.520 - So, as we continue our journey through the state, 00:03.520 --> 00:07.860 we are currently at the Army Aviation Support Facility, 00:07.860 --> 00:10.530 and we are in Greenville, which is the location 00:10.530 --> 00:13.410 where our Lakotas and our Chinooks are housed, 00:13.410 --> 00:15.780 so we're gonna go inside and check it out. 00:15.780 --> 00:20.780 - So, this is the Flight Operations Office of Facility Two, 00:21.110 --> 00:22.480 up here in Greenville. 00:22.480 --> 00:25.190 This is all the flight operations hub, 00:25.190 --> 00:26.700 where all the aircraft go out, 00:26.700 --> 00:29.030 where maintenance checks are performed 00:30.794 --> 00:32.670 They exit left the building. 00:32.670 --> 00:35.220 This is gonna be the central hub so anything, 00:35.220 --> 00:37.260 anything that happens in this facility 00:37.260 --> 00:40.150 Flight Operations personnel are pretty much the first 00:40.150 --> 00:41.580 to know about it. 00:41.580 --> 00:45.420 We'll hand out flight equipment, file flight plans, 00:45.420 --> 00:48.030 hand out equipment to flight crews, 00:48.030 --> 00:50.210 things of that nature, just your day-to-day operations 00:50.210 --> 00:54.130 of the facility start here in Flight Operations. 00:54.130 --> 00:56.753 We have our Flight Planning Room here. 00:59.030 --> 01:01.270 Where crews, air crews will come in 01:01.270 --> 01:03.800 and they'll plan all their flights, 01:03.800 --> 01:05.420 where publications on the wall 01:05.420 --> 01:07.510 and maps along the wall here. 01:07.510 --> 01:12.160 We have computers with weather, reading files, 01:12.160 --> 01:14.010 things of that nature, so anything that will help 01:14.010 --> 01:17.450 the crew members out and the facility to get off the ground 01:17.450 --> 01:18.970 in a timely fashion, 01:18.970 --> 01:21.363 they come through here to plan all their flights. 01:22.240 --> 01:26.040 So as you walk down here, we have all the instructor pilots. 01:26.040 --> 01:27.800 Some of us are instructor pilots, so you have a lot 01:27.800 --> 01:30.423 of instructor pilots here on this second floor here. 01:32.300 --> 01:35.420 Which, instructor pilot, they evaluate and teach 01:35.420 --> 01:37.570 all the other air crew members. 01:37.570 --> 01:39.780 You have flight planning, 01:39.780 --> 01:43.930 another tactical flight planning on this floor here. 01:43.930 --> 01:46.830 We have our Crew Chief's office, 01:46.830 --> 01:48.160 our instructor crew chiefs, 01:48.160 --> 01:50.313 they're also up on this floor as well. 01:51.800 --> 01:53.833 Our safety, safety is up here. 01:55.170 --> 02:00.170 So just more of the operations part is on this floor here. 02:01.760 --> 02:03.900 Facility Commander, he's away on AT right now 02:03.900 --> 02:05.550 so he's not here. 02:05.550 --> 02:06.850 We have Aviation Medicine. 02:08.350 --> 02:10.490 Aviation Medicine's right here. 02:10.490 --> 02:14.790 So there'll be an NCO or a specialist will be 02:14.790 --> 02:17.750 the first line of defense for us here. 02:17.750 --> 02:20.010 He'll talk to the, we have Major Dutton 02:20.010 --> 02:21.883 who's the Flight Doc for the State. 02:22.880 --> 02:24.640 So he takes care of all the flight physicals, 02:24.640 --> 02:25.473 things like that. 02:25.473 --> 02:27.980 If something comes up with any air crew member, 02:27.980 --> 02:29.793 he's the one that's in charge. 02:32.938 --> 02:35.890 And this is the first floor, this is all the maintenance 02:35.890 --> 02:38.047 functions for the whole facility down here. 02:42.907 --> 02:44.640 So this hangar over here is the, 02:44.640 --> 02:47.820 they call it the cold hangar, cold storage 02:47.820 --> 02:50.473 because there's no heat or AC in this hangar. 02:51.640 --> 02:54.350 So we have, normally you would see, 02:54.350 --> 02:57.200 it's empty now but normally you'd see three Chinooks 02:57.200 --> 02:58.490 on this side. 02:58.490 --> 03:01.610 Two of them are actually in Mississippi right now 03:01.610 --> 03:05.250 on annual training, helping out for annual training. 03:05.250 --> 03:07.753 And another one is in (muffled) right now. 03:11.020 --> 03:13.397 We have a couple more offices over here, 03:13.397 --> 03:15.564 and our break room down there. 03:15.564 --> 03:17.580 And just like upstairs, we have our instructor pilots 03:17.580 --> 03:19.830 and your safety and whatnot down here. 03:19.830 --> 03:22.070 This hallway is your production control, 03:22.070 --> 03:25.480 quality control, and the overall boss, 03:25.480 --> 03:28.679 the Master Sergeant, his office is down here as well. 03:28.679 --> 03:31.460 This is your quality production control 03:31.460 --> 03:33.530 for the maintenance guys conducting maintenance 03:33.530 --> 03:34.643 on the aircraft. 03:40.384 --> 03:42.250 And so this is the other hangar. 03:42.250 --> 03:45.413 Same capabilities, so on that side of the hangar, 03:45.413 --> 03:46.633 we have three Chinooks. 03:47.850 --> 03:50.890 On this side, we hold three Chinooks as well. 03:50.890 --> 03:55.650 And we also hold four Lakotas on the far end 03:55.650 --> 03:58.363 of the facility down there. 04:07.628 --> 04:09.650 There are crew that will work on certain functions 04:09.650 --> 04:11.700 and you have a technical inspector, 04:11.700 --> 04:14.480 once they're done performing something. 04:14.480 --> 04:16.050 You'll have a technical inspector who'll come 04:16.050 --> 04:17.870 and make sure they did it correctly 04:17.870 --> 04:19.900 before it gets signed off on. 04:19.900 --> 04:24.540 So, you'll have the farthest guy on the right, 04:24.540 --> 04:28.704 Sergeant Deville, he's the guy who overseeing 04:28.704 --> 04:31.383 that everything is done correctly. 04:41.500 --> 04:42.970 And unfortunately we don't, 04:42.970 --> 04:45.950 we don't have any Lakotas here right now. 04:45.950 --> 04:49.490 We have one Lakota is at the border doing border missions, 04:49.490 --> 04:51.230 and we have three other Lakotas that are down 04:51.230 --> 04:55.710 in Gulfport, Mississippi, for annual training as well. 04:55.710 --> 04:57.553 Unfortunately we don't have any here. 04:58.651 --> 05:01.280 Then we have supply and then we have all the back shops 05:01.280 --> 05:06.280 here so, engine, rotors, we have electronics, 05:06.380 --> 05:09.700 avionics, POL, which is fuel, 05:09.700 --> 05:12.230 all those shops are along this back wall here. 05:13.133 --> 05:14.793 So all your daily operations. 05:24.820 --> 05:29.750 Just two units here, well two aircraft that are stationed 05:29.750 --> 05:32.680 here all the time, the 47s and the 72s, 05:32.680 --> 05:34.540 so the Chinooks and the Lakotas. 05:34.540 --> 05:38.110 And Lakotas do the border mission and they also have, 05:38.110 --> 05:40.100 they're also part of the HART, the SC-HART, 05:40.100 --> 05:40.933 do you know what that is? 05:40.933 --> 05:42.270 You guys know what that is, right? 05:42.270 --> 05:44.320 So the HART team and then the Chinooks 05:44.320 --> 05:46.050 do all the capabilities 05:46.050 --> 05:49.750 wherever they're needed, VIP, you, in-field, ex-field stuff, 05:49.750 --> 05:52.630 moving equipment, and so that's their, 05:52.630 --> 05:54.810 pretty much their capabilities. 05:54.810 --> 05:56.540 - So it was really cool to be able to go 05:56.540 --> 05:59.535 and see the Aviation Facility here in Greenville, 05:59.535 --> 06:01.840 because, I mean, we don't get to see a lot 06:01.840 --> 06:03.790 of the Chinooks or the Lakotas, 06:03.790 --> 06:05.900 so it was nice to see the facility 06:05.900 --> 06:07.020 and learn a little bit more 06:07.020 --> 06:08.920 about the operations that they do here. 06:08.920 --> 06:10.530 So now that we've learned a little bit more 06:10.530 --> 06:13.550 about aviation, we're gonna head on to the next location. 06:13.550 --> 06:15.780 So next on our list of places to visit, 06:15.780 --> 06:19.830 we are stopping at Hotel Company, the 230th BSB, 06:19.830 --> 06:21.360 and we are currently at the Readiness Center, 06:21.360 --> 06:23.580 so we're gonna go inside and check it out. 06:23.580 --> 06:26.650 - Hey, I'm Sergeant Sonya Lovewale, 06:26.650 --> 06:31.650 I'm a supply technician here at Hotel Company, 230th BSB. 06:33.363 --> 06:36.370 We support the 4th of the 118th. 06:36.370 --> 06:41.370 We have mechanics, fuelers, truck drivers, cooks. 06:43.120 --> 06:47.090 We do everything that to sustain the infantry unit. 06:47.090 --> 06:51.367 So basically we support all of the logistics, 06:52.700 --> 06:55.333 movements for the infantry unit. 06:56.380 --> 06:59.780 Anything that they need, like I said, if they need water, 06:59.780 --> 07:04.760 if they need rations, need trucks to haul equipment 07:04.760 --> 07:06.093 to different places, 07:07.110 --> 07:09.550 any of their track vehicles break down, 07:09.550 --> 07:11.950 we've got mechanics that work on track vehicles, 07:11.950 --> 07:14.090 rolling stock, anything like that. 07:14.090 --> 07:17.650 Greer actually is a great little 07:17.650 --> 07:19.960 community town for veterans. 07:19.960 --> 07:21.910 Actually right down the street here 07:21.910 --> 07:23.420 there's Veterans Park. 07:23.420 --> 07:27.250 It actually has a helicopter there, 07:27.250 --> 07:29.000 there's like a little memorial wall 07:29.000 --> 07:30.740 with soldiers' names on it 07:30.740 --> 07:35.740 and also the weekend before the 4th of July, 07:36.711 --> 07:41.711 Greer holds a family festival called Freedom Blast, 07:42.290 --> 07:46.380 and myself and several other soldiers in this unit 07:46.380 --> 07:48.930 have actually volunteered to go up there and help out. 07:48.930 --> 07:52.820 That's when a lot of the units and civilians bring in 07:53.670 --> 07:56.710 military vehicles that they have, 07:56.710 --> 08:00.040 I know the recruiters set up a station up there, 08:00.040 --> 08:05.040 the Honor Guard presents flag and comes in, 08:05.160 --> 08:07.340 and it's really, it's just great, 08:07.340 --> 08:10.800 it's just to honor all of the soldiers 08:10.800 --> 08:14.890 that's in this town and it's fun, it's, like I said, 08:14.890 --> 08:19.890 family friendly, they have music, food trucks, 08:20.330 --> 08:21.980 and things for the kids to do. 08:21.980 --> 08:24.590 So it's really fun, it gets the community involved 08:24.590 --> 08:27.020 and lets them know a lot about what we do 08:27.020 --> 08:28.910 and how we can help them out. 08:28.910 --> 08:33.790 Before we were Hotel Company, we were the 1263rd FSC, 08:34.870 --> 08:38.023 which came on board around 2009. 08:39.070 --> 08:40.580 We're a forward support company 08:40.580 --> 08:43.720 still supporting the infantry unit. 08:43.720 --> 08:46.650 I came here as a technician in 2009. 08:46.650 --> 08:51.650 And then before that, this was the 178th Field Artillery. 08:54.170 --> 08:58.330 And so there were no females allowed in the unit 08:58.330 --> 08:59.833 at that time. 09:01.080 --> 09:04.010 So they've seen, these male soldiers have seen 09:04.010 --> 09:06.200 a lot of changes in the last couple of years 09:06.200 --> 09:08.150 with the females coming on board. 09:08.150 --> 09:10.620 - So it was cool to visit this Readiness Center 09:10.620 --> 09:14.010 in Greer, it has a really cool history behind it 09:14.010 --> 09:16.380 because it started out as a field artillery unit 09:16.380 --> 09:20.690 with the 178th, which then transitioned to the 1263rd FSC 09:20.690 --> 09:23.610 and now today it is a part of the 230th BSB, 09:23.610 --> 09:25.350 so I mean it was really cool to be able 09:25.350 --> 09:28.200 to stop by this Readiness Center and learn more about it.