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from soldiers , radio and television .

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This is the army today , a daily

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feature from around the globe . Outside

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it looks like a normal comics container ,

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but inside it houses the skilled

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soldiers and equipment required to

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fabricate essential parts and tools to

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keep helicopters in the air . The

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machine shop belongs to and supports

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bravo company five 63rd Aviation

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Support battalion in Kandahar .

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Afghanistan ,

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fabricating parts close to the flight

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line in Afghanistan may sound extreme

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to some , but the army machinists

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understand that replacement parts are

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not always available . I can't even

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think how many tools and parts that

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we've made that has been on backorder

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for months claims even won the

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manufacturer's won't release them or to

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their just that far on back order a lot

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of times it's more efficient for us to

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make it not just time wise , but cost

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efficiency too . The machine shop

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fabricates parts like bushings and

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brackets and tools used for aircraft

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maintenance . In many cases the parts

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are essential and need to be completed

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as soon as possible . If we get

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bushings a lot of times it's an

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aircraft on the ground , high priority

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thing . They can't wait . They don't

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have it any S . S . A . Or anything

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like that . So we got to jump the gun

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and and make it up for the aircraft so

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it can get off the ground .

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We can keep an aircraft in the air and

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it complete missions upon missions upon

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missions . I mean that's it's it's a

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big deal . Some of the stuff that we do

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pays a huge contribution to the

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maintenance . I'm army sergeant . Our

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techniques keep . That's the Army today ,

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from soldiers , radio and television .