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senior Airman jeremy , Harshbarger . J

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E R E N . Y H . A . R . S . H . B A . R .

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G E . R . 3 88 E A . M . Xs

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552 A . M . Xs . I'm a crew chief . I'm

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pretty much responsible for the

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entirety of the jet . Making sure all

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the inspections get done . Uhh , make

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sure it gets in the air safely . And

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with no problem before the jet launches ,

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there's a preflight done on the jet ,

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making sure it's ready to go when the

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jet comes down . That's a through

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flight . Make sure everything is um ,

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still in order when the jet comes down ,

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make sure there's no dropped objects .

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Thanks for all the screws are tight and

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right before the jet launches as a free

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launch inspection . That's mainly where

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we dropped covers , do our last little

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inspections we need to do before the

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flight crew comes out and then we

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launched the jet . It's a lot to learn .

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I mean , it's , it's definitely gotten

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a lot easier over the years . Um ,

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it pretty much comes second nature .

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You still have to , you don't know

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something , you still have to look it

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up and make sure you do it right . A

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lot of reading toes and

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just doing everything right the first

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time pretty much . Because if you don't ,

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it could be someone's life technical

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order . It's a , we actually use

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computers that pretty much explain the

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task that you're doing . Like if we

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have to change a tire or break , it

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tells you how to do it . And there's

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special things you have to do when

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you're doing those tasks Well done .

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Most of them are their crew chiefs

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which are doing inspections right now .

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Uh Then we have specialists which she

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had her Jackie w uh hydraulics

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and radar . I'm probably forgetting one

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but I don't think so . But they go

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through and they help out a lot back

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home . It's training for the mission

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and here you're actually doing it . So

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nothing really changes from home to

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here . When the jet comes in after it

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lands we have a marshal er And someone

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is gonna run headset and two people to

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run shock and they've run down and

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throw talks in after the marshals .

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Give him the red X . And they got a

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headset gets on ground , communicates

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with the flight deck , tell them to set

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breaks and kill hydraulic , stop the

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dome and then they hook up the

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you in tow bar to the jet and they push

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it back into the spot . And we have to

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utilize wing walkers and tail walkers

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here , the size and we don't want to

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hit any . They're just there for safety

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measures to two , make sure everything

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goes supporting plan . Well without

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crew chiefs technically the jet

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wouldn't fly because we sign off the

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the pre flight and everything saying

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the jets ready to go and that's

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the bottom line is the jet really can't

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launch without a crew chief . I worked

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for my pro soup , he wants to make sure

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that everything goes to plan . Mhm .

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The pro soups . happy everybody's happy .

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think the oldest one that I know of a

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60 68 or

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69 or 70 somewhere in there . They're

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old . So they break a lot mm

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They've well they kind of have their

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own mentality , every jets different

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and you just gotta treat him nice treat

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them like human beings , pretty much

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everything could break . You never know

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what's gonna break . Hi . It's rare

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when a jet comes down that doesn't have

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a problem that needs fixing .