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All right . So my name is Airman first

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class Kyle faults . I worked for the

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sixth ss first and last name was

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spelled K Y L E and F U L T Z .

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All right . So the main thing we do

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here at Raws radar airfield and weather

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systems . We maintain a lot of the

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equipment on base that allows a

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essentially the tower to communicate

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with planes . And also we work on a lot

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of equipment that allows planes to land

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efficiently . So most of the stuff that

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we work on is out on the airfield or in

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here right behind me . The radios

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basically just allow for a

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communication between the tower and the

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aircraft . And uh , we also work on

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some weather equipment out on base that

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allows weather too . Talk to

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tower and to the plains about

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local weather . Mm such

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so about the importance of our work .

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If we weren't here to do the things

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that we do the tower

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still , I guess technically would be

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able to talk to planes , but it would

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be a a lot more difficult

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and they wouldn't be able to talk to

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planes to help them to land . The

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planes wouldn't be able to use the

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instrument landing systems that help

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them land and weather would would have

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to pull feeds from other places to get

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weather information . So the main thing ,

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the main importance of our work is

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communication . Ah help pilots get in

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the air and get back to the ground . So

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one of the biggest things is we have a

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stand by phone , somebody is on standby

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24 7 . So if there's ever a high

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priority failure , then they give the

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standby phone call and we have somebody

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within an hour I believe that can come

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in and work on the equipment . So you

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get to know each other pretty well and

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you get to know each other's like

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quirks and all these other different

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things like how to work with each other

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really well . It's pretty interesting

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and we go hang out as a shop pretty

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often . We we had a pretty big turnover

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recently . So we've been out sending

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people off quite a bit uh

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for the last couple months . So that's

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been fun . Uh It's kind of the perfect

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blend of uh what is it ?

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It's the perfect blend of like

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meaningful work , but it's not like

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super overbearing . Like everybody's on

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you constantly being like , oh yeah ,

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you're like the best career field and

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everything . So it's like meaningful

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work . But without like overbearing

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recognition basically we're probably

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the most obvious job that nobody knows

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about . That helps the planes fire .

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All right , so my name is Staff

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Sergeant johnny Harris and I'm part of

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the radar air building weather systems

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unit at the six ever since . First name

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J . H . L . A . And I . H .

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A . R . R . S . So simply

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put ross handles a lot of the ground

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air communications with a lot of

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different agencies on days , mainly as

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support for the air traffic controllers ,

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command post as well based ups and

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with weather as well . We handle their

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radio their systems and we also

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handle the navigation systems out on

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the field . That helps just the pilots

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got identified the base so they can

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land and take off and more for more

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precision landing . Mhm . He has a

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as part of the operation support

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squadron were mainly play a support

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role . So don't make people know

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about us . We need to use just working

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behind this thing just to make sure

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that these communications are upper

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running of . Originally we were a part

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of the communication squadron but until

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recently became part of the operation

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for spotting . Just to handle those few

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agencies that I mentioned before .

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Tower Command Post based off especially

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with the exercise going on . Um

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we need to make sure that these

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communication channels are up and

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running so they can continue what they

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need to do to support support these

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missions . So with McD L . Um Father

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main mission of a revealing they

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part of the global mobility

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wings . So in order to get where they

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need to go , they need to know where

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they're going With the ground air

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communications . They can take all but

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proper communications going on and with

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these the navigation equipment we work

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on that will help them identify where

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they need to go and land as smoothly

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and safely as safely as possible .

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Yeah , we're with as accurately as

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possible . We're training free pretty

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frequently , yep , in order to be

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qualified for our job , we have nearly

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just 500 tests that we have to be up on ,

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just , just so we can Have a five level

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and a lot of our staff right now in

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that five level training there ,

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they're up on it alive just so they can

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stay fresh and know what you got , know

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what needs to be done and yet you have

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the maintain a constant Libya

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training every every week . We maintain ,

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I am as well as just quarterly ,

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annual and santa . Any old jobs just

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that makes it work good to go good

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to go for whenever we need to be . Yeah ,

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roses pretty small . Even throughout

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all the airports were very small . Not

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a lot of people know what we do , but

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going with that , that makes it easier

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for us to come together . Just not just

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for works it , but just as people , we

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can get to know each other a lot more .

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It gets closer to do , just do a lot of

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things that a lot of bigger shots

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wouldn't be able to do as I guess

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efficiently or as effectively we get ,

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we get to truly know each other and how

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we work . It's gonna be kind of ironic ,

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but if you don't hear about it , that's

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a good thing because that just means

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we're doing our job , how we're

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supposed to be . Again , we're playing

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that support role , we go are mainly

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behind the scenes have a job . So as

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long as things are up and running

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aircraft landing safely , vital systems

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reporting properly and communications

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are going then we're good .

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Even though I may not always verbally

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say say I do care about the

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growth and just the lives of Maren

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underneath , not just to get the work

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done , but I do care about how just

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their day to day is going to be hard ,

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especially in their training period .

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But once you get through that this is a

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fulfilling job and you're you're going

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to learn a lot and I personally enjoyed

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what I did it . Once I got out of that

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little training funk , then I truly

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enjoy coming to work each day .