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^- [Voiceover] A sailor attached to a deploy-able unit

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^is always moving.

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^For aircraft maintainers, as long as their birds

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^are in the sky, there's always going to be

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something wearing out and needing to be replaced.

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^- Well we are constantly going going going.

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^Going to the ship, going on detachments.

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^I work the flight deck.

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It was different in the sense that we actually

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worked on the aircraft, so it was the full system

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versus just the engine, which we do here.

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- [Voiceover] The Aircraft Intermediate Maintenance

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Department, or AIMD serves a similar role

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as squadron maintainers, but the parts they work on

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are much more specific, with more in-depth work.

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- We're aviation machinists, meaning we do

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^eye level maintenance on the P3 engines.

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^So anything that's bad from the P3 community

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^comes to us and we'll rebuild it,

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test it and send it back out to the fleet.

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- [Voiceover] Location is just as important

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as a quick turn around on fixing engines.

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Because of Misawa's location, they support

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aircraft moving through the entire Pacific region.

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(dramatic music)