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Is available 24 hours a day . We're

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blessed with lots of pavement . We

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don't have a lot of airplanes here .

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Right . There's an air force base , but

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we have the capability of the mission

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to take care of these airplanes and do

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what they need to do . So they bring

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airplanes here , go home to their

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families , take care of their homes ,

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that kind of stuff . Come back , get

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the airplanes when there is safe . Mhm .

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Yes , I heard you talk there about an

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hour and a half or two from the home

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station . Can you elaborate a little

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better ? Why is that ? Is it because of

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its location ? Roy Patterson is located

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about an hour , an hour and a half for

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most east coast and gulf coast bases .

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So we're an ideal location for both

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fighters and the larger airframe

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aircraft . It doesn't cost a lot of gas

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to get here . Right , passing Air Force

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Base and we're close to home . We have

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a lot of facilities here infrastructure ,

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both on base and off base to

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accommodate this type of mission .

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Great . We talk about the history of

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some of the evacuations again on 08

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brought a ton of friends with Seymour

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Johnson , that stuff like that . Can

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you talk about , you know , the history

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of having to do this and provided that

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here . Right , patterson . We're used

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to doing this . I've been here many ,

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many years . Uh , and we have been

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doing this over and over for at least

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20 years . I've been here . We've

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become very accustomed to help in some

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of these major storms . We've had .

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Seymour johnson we've had Andrews , Air

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Force Base , Langley Air Force Base .

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Here . Years go . We hit Homestead Air

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Force Base That basically toy wiped out .

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A few years ago . We brought the

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airplanes up here and they stayed up

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here for about 90 days where ideal

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location to do that mission . Okay ,

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sweet . Thank you .