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Hello and welcome to around the Air

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Force . I'm Staff Sergeant Sean

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Hostetler . Thanks for joining us .

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Just as they do at home station of 16

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crew chiefs deployed to Kandahar

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Afghanistan work to make sure their

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aircraft are mission ready . Airman

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Jimmy Moreland shows us how these

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airmen take satisfaction in being able

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to complete their mission . Under real

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world conditions .

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These airmen of the South Carolina Air

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National Guard are a long way from home .

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They're here at Kandahar airfield

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Afghanistan , making sure these F-16

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jet fighters stay in flying condition ,

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anything that broke , we'll fix it and

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do objects on everything , which is

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just checking out to make sure

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everything from the landing gear works

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to lights , everything like that and

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then we just put it all back together ,

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send it out back to the flight line so

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you can fly . It's a lot of different

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back shops involved . You got weapons ,

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avionics , ammo crew Chief

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engines , a lot of people put together

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it takes to make a jet fly . The

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guardsmen do the same job here that

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they do at their home station in south

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Carolina . But the crew chiefs feel

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their work is even more important out

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here . It sits in the back of your mind

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knowing that it's gonna go do it . Its

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main job , it might have to pull more

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Gs than normal . So tighten that screw

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just a little bit more . It makes you

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feel like , you know , you're being

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more productive as opposed to back home .

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Just all training missions here . You

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feel a little more accomplished what

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you're doing means a lot these airmen

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will keep their jets ready to fly over

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the skies of Afghanistan until they

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return home to south Carolina Airman

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Jimmy Moreland Kandahar Airfield ,

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Afghanistan . While the aircraft may be

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different . The end goal for fixed wing

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and helicopter crew chiefs remains the

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same . Staff Sergeant Nathaniel Coppin

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is deployed to Afghanistan where he

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works on hh 60 pave hawk helicopters .

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He tells us how after working long

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hours in less than ideal conditions ,

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he keeps motivated . Mhm

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I do this job because I love it and

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there's nothing better than that .

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You're here to save people . You know ,

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you're not here to kill anybody ,

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you're not here , you know , to cause

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damage or anything . You're here to

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save people are people and anybody

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that's actually hurt . Anytime you get

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that call , you know that somebody's

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life on the line and I know and I have

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faith in my people That every time we

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touch this aircraft we make sure 100%

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ready for the crew to step in and go

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save somebody's life . So every time

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they come back with a passenger or

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someone that they've saved , that means

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the world to me , everyone takes a

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different route on the road to becoming

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an Airman Senior Airman Danielle

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Kohlberg introduces us to an Air Force

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spouse at Aviano Air Base . Italy who's

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hanging up her barista apron in favor

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of Air Force blue as the sun rises over

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Aviano Air Base . Many are just waking

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up , Alicia Macdonald , however , has

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been up for hours . She and the other

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girls at the deja brew coffee house are

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getting ready for the inevitable

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morning rush . We'll be doing like

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three sometimes forward and sometimes

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blended drink , iced drink and we're

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all over the place like talking caramel

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cream , ice , chocolate cream , ice

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still . She greets customers with a

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smile , then gets to steaming ,

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stirring or blending their drink of

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choice . But there's something else she

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hopes to serve soon instead . Yeah ,

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her country's while she's already

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enlisted . She doesn't know what her

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job is going to be . I'd be open to the

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Air Force needs . I don't want to see

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my recruiter that but or when she

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leaves for basic training but she's

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ready . It sounds kind of crazy that

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I'm looking forward to basic , but I am

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seeing my husband when he got out . He

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was definitely a changed person and

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besides that just being in the best

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shape of my life wearing that uniform .

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I think it's something that everyone is

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proud to do . So I'm excited Until that

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day comes , Alicia will keep waking up

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early to serve the patrons of deja brew

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after all . She may not be making

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coffee in basic training but she will

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be waking up early . Senior airman

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Danielle culvert aviano Air base Italy

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and that wraps up today's edition of

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around the Air Force from Fort Meade

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Maryland . I'm staff Sergeant Sean

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Hostetler