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My favorite part of this job is my

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troops and the people that I come in

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contact with to train them to be great

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equipment operators and be down range

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ready . I tell them we're the best dirt

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boy shop in the air force being a dirt

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boy to me for the mission is we're the

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backbone . We're the backbone .

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Everybody needs us . We keep the planes

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flying . We take care of spas on the

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airfield . We take care of the roads ,

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we take care of perimeter fence . We

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pretty much have our hands in

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everything , maintaining the airfield

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for the air force is keeping sorties

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going , making sure the runways ,

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planes can take off land in any kind of

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weather , uh spa repairs , whatever it

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takes to keep those planes flying . I

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picked my job to become a dirt boy

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because I've been in construction

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pretty much my whole life started off

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with carpentry when I was about 15 and

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you just keep going on through there .

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I like using my hands . So it was the

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only thing I could do our job support

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submission by keeping planes in the air .

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Uh We're in charge of the airfield when

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it comes to spas , which is pretty much

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any pavement defects that may cause

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rocks or any type of breakage inside

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the concrete . You go out there , cut

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it out , fix it and patch it back up .

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My favorite part about my job is seeing

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the effects of it . Like I said , I did

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construction when I was younger and I

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still see those buildings to this day

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and I can say , hey , I helped out on

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there . So being here and us stamping

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out dirt , boy , stamp to some of those

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sidewalks here . I get to see that .

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Hey , we did this one and take pride

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into it .