WEBVTT 00:12.450 --> 00:16.530 Quote airport is the misery peter aviation sustained and maintenance 00:16.530 --> 00:19.740 corrupt or motel as an G as it's commonly now. 00:20.360 --> 00:24.290 The motel as an G is a special national guard facility were army 00:24.290 --> 00:27.930 and national guard helicopters and helicopter parts are tested 00:27.930 --> 00:29.300 repaired and refer. Birch. 00:32.270 --> 00:35.790 We're one of four chasm geez under the NASA barbie girl. 00:36.210 --> 00:40.260 There's will the leveled six and in california love loss of appeared 00:40.260 --> 00:43.210 sprinkle misery float away from Mississippi don't love of on 00:43.210 --> 00:44.370 life and brought. Connecticut. 00:46.970 --> 00:51.580 Mo to as an geezers a 14 state region from north Dakota down 00:51.580 --> 00:52.390 to texas. 00:53.210 --> 00:57.080 We have been special to support men ones bustle pools that they 00:57.080 --> 01:01.020 can't afford it put him every aviation unit throughout the United States. 01:01.290 --> 01:05.540 So they put it no forecasts and cheese. So we can help the invested 01:05.540 --> 01:09.070 barbed neural. Basically save money by working on an fix it. 01:09.920 --> 01:12.430 Normally you could do the the youth. Level. 01:16.500 --> 01:17.710 We were raw. 01:18.400 --> 01:18.810 Name is. 01:19.400 --> 01:23.810 Are. General aviation menace will work and her from helicopters 01:24.190 --> 01:28.240 and we have our back shops which is already the on axel hydraulics. 01:28.580 --> 01:32.890 Our engines. We also work on aircraft paint for we painted only 01:32.890 --> 01:36.410 aircraft itself but a lot of the components in the aircraft mainly 01:36.410 --> 01:39.630 work earn you a sexy black cock helicopters. But we've been known 01:39.630 --> 01:44.270 to work on aids sixty-four patch he's or the ch 47 chinook helicopters. 01:45.890 --> 01:49.320 The four to as an Jesus are an acid to the department of defense 01:49.320 --> 01:51.600 because of the financial savings a burning. 01:52.160 --> 01:55.430 Prepares on aircrafts and parts performed at the motel as in 01:55.430 --> 01:59.420 deal won't yield hundreds of millions of dollars in cost savings. 02:00.010 --> 02:02.900 We provide the best rhubarb you're the best thing ports block 02:03.140 --> 02:07.350 we take some of our aircraft components in instead of just trash 02:07.350 --> 02:11.250 in them and getting a new one we hugo and fix what we have will 02:11.250 --> 02:15.290 take a roller blade dolphin helicopter a new price of the approximate 02:15.290 --> 02:20.100 hundred and $43,000 but we can repaired for is little of the 02:20.100 --> 02:21.670 seat a couple of. Dollars. 02:23.810 --> 02:26.900 The customers in the field whether it be north Dakota where taxes 02:26.900 --> 02:29.860 for bein' just back and take the component offer their finest 02:29.860 --> 02:33.070 while the component a time to be shipped to this location tours 02:33.100 --> 02:36.880 ssn a it'll be unpacked each work. Worse will be produced and 02:36.880 --> 02:40.790 or go to a to designated shop a once it gets that shop the repairs 02:40.790 --> 02:44.030 completed on the component shit back to the customer and this 02:44.030 --> 02:45.880 customer has a working product. 02:47.520 --> 02:50.580 For those situations where the pylon these to get back in the 02:50.580 --> 02:54.700 or as soon as possible the motel as an G has a repair manageable 02:54.700 --> 02:58.640 program within our own program. It's a little bit different we 02:58.640 --> 03:01.740 actually have those components on one hand. So the customer since 03:01.740 --> 03:05.180 the component to shop instead of us doing the rick parents and 03:05.220 --> 03:07.830 that we just take one right off the shelf get it back to the 03:07.830 --> 03:11.230 customer and the way to get on aircraft the gets wonder. Missions. 03:13.530 --> 03:17.430 Chief C officer patrick read manages the avionics department. 03:18.020 --> 03:21.670 Any wire component from an aircraft that meets testing your there 03:21.960 --> 03:23.110 comes to his team. 03:23.750 --> 03:27.420 They're well known for their ingenuity and always up for challenge. 03:28.430 --> 03:31.870 Forget the phone call from somebody necessary can you do this 03:31.900 --> 03:35.720 and my initial answer is always. Yes we can and so that's where 03:35.720 --> 03:38.820 I get excited and we get the guys together and we start talking 03:38.820 --> 03:41.370 and and we fear I guess we can do it and we figure out how to 03:41.370 --> 03:44.400 do it. So that's the most enjoyable part of my job this Windows 03:44.400 --> 03:47.510 phone calls come in nobody else can do it and we the city and 03:47.510 --> 03:50.180 find out how to do it get its own and get the product back out 03:50.180 --> 03:51.590 to the army national guard. Oregon. 03:54.620 --> 03:59.060 The mold to as an gu workforce is around 230 people and is made 03:59.060 --> 04:03.910 up of misery national guardsmen state employees and civilian contractors. 04:04.930 --> 04:08.320 We're mechanics and then you're 20 25 years made spring to bring 04:08.320 --> 04:10.140 to the table to astronomical. 04:11.360 --> 04:15.440 I have decades of experience in individual soldiers in acknowledges 04:15.440 --> 04:18.080 passed down. I think that's a good opportunity in ways that we 04:18.080 --> 04:19.430 keep maintenance don't whine. 04:21.950 --> 04:26.990 The way I view are jiang was we keep aircraft maintained electronics 04:27.050 --> 04:30.690 specifically my job as long as all that stuff works then that 04:30.690 --> 04:33.970 supports the pilots and most of support the troops on the ground. 04:33.970 --> 04:36.980 So we indirectly you're helping out the infantry goes. 04:38.630 --> 04:41.530 There's also research and does all month as don at the motel 04:41.530 --> 04:45.720 has in chic to make the jabs of the army and national guard soldiers easier. 04:46.510 --> 04:49.500 This is evident from the mid west to the middle east. 04:50.330 --> 04:53.390 We ended Mozart happened use that up one mix. Of course cannot 04:53.390 --> 04:56.690 happen to be in Afghanistan quirk a with the soldiers in Afghanistan 04:56.780 --> 04:59.390 won the soldiers actually had to testing equipment that they 04:59.390 --> 05:02.180 wanted me to see that gives the abilities to test some of the 05:02.180 --> 05:05.420 analog and digital equipment inside the black call me my team 05:05.420 --> 05:07.840 we won over we look to test the one that had never really for 05:07.840 --> 05:10.660 out of somebody what would that they'd cannot recognize. It is 05:10.660 --> 05:13.440 being something that was bill it the misery cat from the he was 05:13.440 --> 05:16.750 virt for I defeated no clue that it would be built at a national 05:16.750 --> 05:19.970 Bart facility and someone to put a face to a a product. 05:20.850 --> 05:24.150 What we are doing here to some degree can be prototype bingo 05:24.150 --> 05:26.700 coming off with tests that are out there that could be looked 05:26.700 --> 05:29.800 at is engineering so it's not rocket science but it's pretty 05:29.800 --> 05:30.230 close to. 05:31.080 --> 05:34.310 The motel is in she is constantly growing and will continue to 05:34.310 --> 05:37.820 set the high standards for army helicopter maintenance for years 05:37.820 --> 05:38.350 to calm..