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traveling the roads of the Panjshir

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Valley can be difficult at times ,

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especially with most of them being dirt

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roads . The vehicles driven by the

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Panzer P . R . T . Take a beating on

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the roads every day . Senior airman

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Smitty tom phileas is a mechanic for

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the team and his mission is a little

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different compared to what he does .

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Stateside difference between me working

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their pants here rather than that moody

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Air Force base is because we're the

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only two personnel maintenance

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personnel and usually between convoys

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each week . Usually we have to we'll

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also alternate driver . So usually

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it'll be one personnel a lot of times

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working on the vehicle . If one were to

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go down , then , you know , we have to

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be able to respond whether it's back at

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his home station or being deployed .

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The Panjshir senior airman palm phileas

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knows what his job is and the impact it

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has on the therapy

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mission .

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Yeah .