WEBVTT 00:12.040 --> 00:14.207 when did you find out you were getting 00:14.207 --> 00:16.650 deployed ? I found out about eight 00:16.650 --> 00:18.660 months before I actually left . In 00:18.660 --> 00:20.716 january . So I had plenty of time to 00:20.716 --> 00:23.400 get ready and you told us you were 00:23.400 --> 00:26.210 active . Did you receive any kind of 00:26.220 --> 00:30.210 training ? Yes they sent us to 00:30.210 --> 00:33.410 CST combat skills training which the 00:33.420 --> 00:35.680 army actually teaches us but it's for 00:35.680 --> 00:38.090 all jet Taskings . Any Taskings where 00:38.090 --> 00:40.670 we actually you're filling Taskings for 00:40.670 --> 00:42.726 the army so I want to CST and it was 00:42.726 --> 00:46.130 about a month long in New Jersey at 00:46.130 --> 00:48.450 Fort Dix . Was that training effective ? 00:49.840 --> 00:53.040 Yes and no honestly because I would say 00:53.040 --> 00:55.640 for my job just for the M . C . T . 00:55.700 --> 00:57.922 Then it was because it was like a crash 00:57.922 --> 01:00.570 course in army and and how the army 01:00.570 --> 01:02.626 works and you know all of the things 01:02.626 --> 01:06.380 that you do on a regular basis but if I 01:06.380 --> 01:08.380 were to be doing any other job like 01:08.380 --> 01:10.491 convoys or anything like that I don't 01:10.491 --> 01:12.602 think it would have been that helpful 01:12.602 --> 01:14.769 because it was only a month long and I 01:14.769 --> 01:16.769 feel like you can't really get that 01:16.769 --> 01:18.880 kind of training in that short period 01:18.880 --> 01:21.430 of time . Does that make sense ? So 01:21.440 --> 01:24.260 does your job here different from the 01:24.260 --> 01:26.316 job that you do back in the States . 01:26.316 --> 01:29.560 Absolutely I am at home . I'm an Lro 01:29.570 --> 01:32.130 which in the air Force , its logistics 01:32.140 --> 01:35.300 that encompasses fuels is 01:35.300 --> 01:38.860 supply um material management , 01:38.870 --> 01:40.759 all of supply and then you've got 01:40.759 --> 01:43.410 vehicle ops vehicle maintenance . Um 01:43.410 --> 01:45.760 And then as well as um 01:46.440 --> 01:49.230 transportation and what I did at home 01:49.230 --> 01:51.341 was I was the installation deployment 01:51.341 --> 01:53.174 officers . So I was in charge of 01:53.174 --> 01:55.286 basically sending people out the door 01:55.286 --> 01:57.570 all of the deployment stuff . Um as far 01:57.570 --> 01:59.640 as sending out tasking working like 01:59.640 --> 02:01.640 llamas if we couldn't feel Taskings 02:01.640 --> 02:03.862 that was basically my primary job . And 02:03.862 --> 02:06.300 so here it's more of the cargo piece 02:06.300 --> 02:08.770 which I knew a little bit about because 02:08.770 --> 02:11.610 I've worked in supply but definitely 02:11.610 --> 02:14.200 this is a lot different from home and 02:14.200 --> 02:17.060 you said this is your first employment , 02:17.070 --> 02:19.560 what that's going into this point ? 02:20.040 --> 02:22.990 Um I thought it was gonna be terrible . 02:23.000 --> 02:25.700 I was not looking forward to leaving 02:25.700 --> 02:28.330 home . I really like my base . I'm 02:28.330 --> 02:30.590 stationed at moody in Georgia and I 02:30.590 --> 02:32.534 love it and I didn't want to leave 02:32.534 --> 02:34.701 because I you know have a good working 02:34.701 --> 02:36.701 relationship with them and I wasn't 02:36.701 --> 02:38.757 looking forward to it . But honestly 02:38.757 --> 02:40.923 CST I had a really good time and I met 02:40.923 --> 02:43.090 you know friends there and I even when 02:43.090 --> 02:45.146 I got here there were some people at 02:45.146 --> 02:47.312 CST who came to this base to so I made 02:47.312 --> 02:49.550 friends coming here and it's not bad at 02:49.550 --> 02:51.772 all and I've learned a lot of new stuff 02:51.772 --> 02:53.772 especially army lingo that I didn't 02:53.772 --> 02:55.828 know before . So it it really hasn't 02:55.828 --> 02:57.883 been as bad but I definitely was not 02:57.883 --> 03:00.490 looking forward to it . Can you explain 03:00.490 --> 03:04.260 to me in detail what your involvement 03:04.260 --> 03:06.316 is with the M . C . T . Like what do 03:06.316 --> 03:08.950 you do when you come in and like what 03:08.950 --> 03:10.783 do you do when you come into the 03:10.783 --> 03:12.839 morning till the time that you leave 03:12.839 --> 03:15.006 every day . Oh gosh . Um Honestly most 03:15.006 --> 03:18.200 of my day is spent doing reports 03:18.210 --> 03:21.890 and trying to figure out reading fragos 03:21.890 --> 03:24.670 doing reports and making sure that all 03:24.670 --> 03:26.781 of the paperwork side of the house is 03:26.781 --> 03:28.837 accomplished . Um I know the biggest 03:28.837 --> 03:31.059 part of our job or their job out here . 03:31.059 --> 03:32.892 My airmen is actually moving and 03:32.892 --> 03:35.210 processing the cargo but unfortunately 03:35.210 --> 03:37.321 I'm stuck doing the paperwork part of 03:37.321 --> 03:39.154 it . Um We have a lot of history 03:39.154 --> 03:41.321 reports . We have to make sure we send 03:41.321 --> 03:43.321 up all the numbers of the weight we 03:43.321 --> 03:45.266 moved the packs we moved and since 03:45.266 --> 03:47.820 we're in charge of um sharp emissions 03:47.820 --> 03:49.840 and helo missions and fixed wings 03:49.840 --> 03:52.007 missions . You know we have a bunch of 03:52.007 --> 03:54.173 different reports that we have to send 03:54.173 --> 03:56.229 up . So honestly I'm stuck doing the 03:56.229 --> 03:56.060 boring part but I do get to come out 03:56.060 --> 03:58.080 here and you know see what they do 03:58.080 --> 03:59.247 every now and then . 04:02.940 --> 04:06.070 And can you explain to me what the cT's 04:06.070 --> 04:09.730 mission is as a whole . Yes they are in 04:09.730 --> 04:11.841 charge are the M . C . T . Here is in 04:11.841 --> 04:15.620 charge of moving all cargo for the army , 04:15.630 --> 04:18.300 all army cargo for victory based 04:18.300 --> 04:22.300 compound by air is basically what we do . 04:22.380 --> 04:25.380 So would you say 04:30.240 --> 04:31.950 out of any other students ? 04:32.340 --> 04:36.200 I don't know if I'd say we are 04:36.210 --> 04:39.210 the busiest because I know balad the 04:39.220 --> 04:41.570 air M . C . T . There . I talked to the 04:41.570 --> 04:43.681 commander there frequently actually . 04:43.681 --> 04:46.800 She's also a R . M . C . T . That works 04:46.800 --> 04:49.080 for the army so we communicate a lot . 04:49.110 --> 04:51.221 I think I've been able to look at the 04:51.221 --> 04:53.443 numbers on a daily basis and we seem to 04:53.443 --> 04:56.050 be about the same . Um So us in balad 04:56.050 --> 04:58.370 seem to be really busy . Um but like I 04:58.370 --> 05:00.920 was saying before it kind of goes back 05:00.920 --> 05:03.540 and forth . Sometimes our cargo yard 05:03.540 --> 05:05.540 will be so full . We don't have any 05:05.540 --> 05:07.373 room . We literally have to tell 05:07.373 --> 05:09.429 customers to hold off And then other 05:09.429 --> 05:11.620 times you know it's feast or famine . 05:11.620 --> 05:13.731 It just depends on when the customers 05:13.731 --> 05:17.730 want to ship stuff basically . I don't 05:17.730 --> 05:21.590 even know going into this point . I 05:21.600 --> 05:24.900 was hoping to learn more about the army 05:24.910 --> 05:27.840 way that the army moves 05:27.850 --> 05:31.580 cargo and stuff . I was told by a lot 05:31.580 --> 05:33.980 of my captains and people back home 05:33.980 --> 05:36.202 that it was gonna be really interesting 05:36.202 --> 05:38.424 and that I'm so used to doing stuff the 05:38.424 --> 05:40.820 Air force way and moving people the Air 05:40.820 --> 05:42.764 force way and they just told me it 05:42.764 --> 05:44.876 would be a really good experience for 05:44.876 --> 05:47.042 me too learn and see how it is working 05:47.042 --> 05:49.209 for the army and doing it . And it has 05:49.209 --> 05:51.042 it really has been it is totally 05:51.042 --> 05:53.264 different from the air force but I like 05:53.264 --> 05:55.431 it and it's been interesting what kind 05:55.431 --> 05:56.431 of challenges . 05:56.750 --> 06:00.710 Uh Well let's 06:00.710 --> 06:03.050 see one of the challenges is definitely 06:03.080 --> 06:05.302 just the different languages at the air 06:05.302 --> 06:07.440 force and army talk the different 06:07.440 --> 06:10.000 acronyms . I know I went to an Air 06:10.000 --> 06:11.944 force conference here with an army 06:11.944 --> 06:14.167 captain and I was like his translator , 06:14.167 --> 06:16.333 he took me just so I could translate . 06:16.333 --> 06:18.444 So that's been interesting . But also 06:18.444 --> 06:21.490 like little things like us are to the 06:21.490 --> 06:23.657 army means something totally different 06:23.657 --> 06:25.879 from what it means to us to us . It's a 06:25.879 --> 06:28.101 safe safety representative to y'all , I 06:28.101 --> 06:27.990 can't even remember what it is , it's 06:27.990 --> 06:29.879 something else . Um , so that was 06:29.879 --> 06:32.046 difficult because I was sending up the 06:32.046 --> 06:34.101 wrong reports at first for something 06:34.101 --> 06:36.434 totally different than what they wanted . 06:36.434 --> 06:40.070 Um but also when I first got here 06:40.080 --> 06:42.620 other than just the whole army aspect , 06:42.620 --> 06:46.500 I guess , um there were some 06:46.510 --> 06:49.200 differences in how the last team ran 06:49.200 --> 06:51.680 things and then how we wanted to do it 06:51.690 --> 06:53.930 and being in the Air Force , You know , 06:53.930 --> 06:55.986 everybody comes from a different air 06:55.986 --> 06:58.320 force base to all be one team . So none 06:58.320 --> 07:00.598 of us have ever worked together before . 07:00.598 --> 07:02.709 We're all new to this were all new to 07:02.709 --> 07:04.709 each other . So we get out here and 07:04.709 --> 07:06.820 everybody has their own opinion about 07:06.820 --> 07:09.310 how things need to be run . So a little 07:09.310 --> 07:11.380 bit of friction at first . I mean 07:11.380 --> 07:13.547 everybody got along , but it was , you 07:13.547 --> 07:15.713 know , how do these reports need to be 07:15.713 --> 07:17.824 done ? How does everything need to be 07:17.824 --> 07:19.880 counted ? And it took us a few weeks 07:19.880 --> 07:19.170 for everybody to kind of get on the 07:19.170 --> 07:21.830 same page and start doing things the 07:21.830 --> 07:23.830 same way . So that was definitely 07:23.830 --> 07:27.250 interesting . How did you get over some 07:27.250 --> 07:29.890 of the challenges that you face when 07:29.890 --> 07:32.880 you first got here ? Well like I was 07:32.880 --> 07:34.602 saying how everybody has their 07:34.602 --> 07:36.713 different ways and we've never worked 07:36.713 --> 07:38.824 together before . We literally stayed 07:38.824 --> 07:41.047 here . You know , we have our normal 12 07:41.047 --> 07:43.269 hour shifts . But no , we were here for 07:43.269 --> 07:46.760 like 18 hours literally . Um the chief 07:46.770 --> 07:49.100 and myself , master sergeant , both the 07:49.100 --> 07:51.267 master sergeants were out in the cargo 07:51.267 --> 07:53.433 yard literally walking around with the 07:53.433 --> 07:55.433 airmen , like talking about all the 07:55.433 --> 07:57.433 different uses of cargo , trying to 07:57.433 --> 07:59.489 figure out how we're gonna do things 07:59.489 --> 08:01.656 and where we were going to , how we're 08:01.656 --> 08:03.822 gonna organize it . And so it was just 08:03.822 --> 08:05.822 a lot of trying to come together in 08:05.822 --> 08:07.822 teamwork I guess in the beginning , 08:07.822 --> 08:10.410 what have been your accomplishments ? 08:11.440 --> 08:15.230 Oh wow . Um mm That's a good one 08:15.500 --> 08:18.650 I guess I guess so far 08:19.340 --> 08:22.350 as a personal thing , I know a lot of 08:22.350 --> 08:24.800 us have , we all have been starting to 08:24.800 --> 08:27.640 do schoolwork and like we've all 08:27.650 --> 08:31.300 um Signed up for classes , so we've all 08:31.300 --> 08:33.356 been doing that on personal levels . 08:33.356 --> 08:35.860 And then also individually we've all 08:35.860 --> 08:38.560 kind of decided we're gonna all get in 08:38.560 --> 08:41.610 better shape and its we've really 08:41.620 --> 08:43.750 gotten close in the shop , they all 08:43.750 --> 08:45.972 give me a hard time because I wanted to 08:45.972 --> 08:47.972 do better at push ups . So they all 08:47.972 --> 08:50.028 make me do 10 pushups a day and then 08:50.028 --> 08:51.861 they'll come in my office when I 08:51.861 --> 08:53.917 haven't done them and they'll say lt 08:53.917 --> 08:53.650 you haven't done your push ups today . 08:53.650 --> 08:57.420 So um I don't know , I think that we've 08:57.420 --> 08:59.642 all learned something so far , but also 08:59.642 --> 09:01.420 we've all been trying to better 09:01.420 --> 09:03.642 ourselves out here , you know , when we 09:03.642 --> 09:05.587 have our free time , so maybe that 09:05.587 --> 09:07.642 would be the best accomplishment , I 09:07.642 --> 09:07.460 don't know .