WEBVTT 00:10.715 --> 00:12.675 - Well here at Jalalabad we have a landing zone. 00:12.675 --> 00:16.342 It's C130 landing zone capable of holding C17 on its runway. 00:16.342 --> 00:19.056 It's a nice little landing zone that we have out here 00:19.056 --> 00:21.417 that we also sustain helicopter operations over 00:21.417 --> 00:23.864 and other types of fixed wing. 00:23.864 --> 00:25.732 - I am CE, I'm a dirt boy. 00:25.732 --> 00:27.405 My main mission here is the airfield. 00:27.405 --> 00:30.170 But I also wear the hats of every other AFSC 00:30.170 --> 00:31.587 in this CE realm. 00:31.648 --> 00:33.027 I do a little bit of the HVAC work. 00:33.027 --> 00:34.557 I do a little electrical work. 00:34.557 --> 00:36.842 I do a little bit of the structural work. 00:36.842 --> 00:38.278 So pretty much I am a squadron 00:38.278 --> 00:40.736 within one person here at Jalalabad. 00:40.736 --> 00:43.188 - So as the deck commander, I do the, kind of, 00:43.188 --> 00:46.214 the day to day, oversee the day to day operations. 00:46.214 --> 00:48.164 Figure out what questions we need to get answered 00:48.164 --> 00:50.206 and work with the CEs to get the answers that we need 00:50.206 --> 00:52.251 so we can make the right decisions. 00:52.251 --> 00:53.626 As a senior air field authority, 00:53.626 --> 00:54.682 it's kind of along the same line. 00:54.682 --> 00:57.342 I work directly for General Sears in that capacity 00:57.342 --> 00:59.384 cause he holds actual SAA. 00:59.384 --> 01:01.218 And then as the flight safety officer 01:01.218 --> 01:02.700 doing monthly inspections. 01:02.700 --> 01:04.703 Right now one of the ones I'm working on is trying to get 01:04.703 --> 01:06.920 fire bottles, the Halon fire bottles 01:06.920 --> 01:09.014 for all of the air craft down here. 01:09.014 --> 01:12.274 And then any mishap investigations for the air force, 01:12.274 --> 01:13.641 the assets that are here. 01:13.641 --> 01:16.897 - Another big thing that happens is of course during IDFs, 01:16.897 --> 01:18.348 indirect fire attacks, 01:18.348 --> 01:20.268 when something does hit close to the runway, 01:20.268 --> 01:21.701 causes a FOD out or anything, 01:21.701 --> 01:24.341 it's a lot of coordination with the contractors, 01:24.341 --> 01:28.508 the army, and then we'll get a lot of air force people 01:29.078 --> 01:30.412 out there to try to help out 01:30.412 --> 01:32.548 and clean up the surfaces out there 01:32.548 --> 01:35.320 and get the runway open as quickly as possible. 01:35.320 --> 01:38.455 - Usually air force managers and civil engineer dirt boys, 01:38.455 --> 01:40.311 we work side by side anyways. 01:40.311 --> 01:43.161 So it actually, get a chance to work side by side 01:43.161 --> 01:45.638 in the same building at the same base. 01:45.638 --> 01:46.844 There's not other time other than 01:46.844 --> 01:49.491 being at a deployed location that you'll get to do that. 01:49.491 --> 01:52.144 So, the dynamics in here are awesome. 01:52.144 --> 01:54.722 Without having an awesome commander here, 01:54.722 --> 01:57.165 without having an awesome air field manager, 01:57.165 --> 01:59.509 without having just awesome airmen in general, 01:59.509 --> 02:03.592 I don't think the mission would be so successful. 02:04.700 --> 02:05.912 - Well, we've got coalition partners 02:05.912 --> 02:06.879 that fly in and out of here, 02:06.879 --> 02:09.004 flying missions in and out of here. 02:09.004 --> 02:11.073 And what we do on the air field enables them 02:11.073 --> 02:12.874 to carry those missions out. 02:12.874 --> 02:14.912 Whether it's ISR, whether it's strike, 02:14.912 --> 02:18.515 they couldn't do it if we didn't maintain the airfield 02:18.515 --> 02:19.432 like we do. 02:20.979 --> 02:23.194 - We reach out to our army brothers that are out there 02:23.194 --> 02:24.227 and sisters that are out there 02:24.227 --> 02:25.633 and then they have the local nationals 02:25.633 --> 02:27.965 that will come out and assist us wherever they can. 02:27.965 --> 02:30.750 And so, it's not necessarily us just doing it by ourselves 02:30.750 --> 02:31.813 but it's us reaching out. 02:31.813 --> 02:33.304 Airmen getting boots on deck, 02:33.304 --> 02:35.854 reaching out to the resources we have available here 02:35.854 --> 02:37.393 and getting the mission done. 02:37.393 --> 02:39.207 And, I'm just really proud of what 02:39.207 --> 02:42.624 everybody's been able to accomplish here.