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^- A1C Devon Painter and I'm a metals technician.

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^You saw a few airmen on the lathe which

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^is a machine that you use to make smaller parts

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for pushings, things like that for the aircraft.

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You saw some people using the mill

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which is another machine we use here to make aircraft parts

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but it's a lot more technical.

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And then you saw another airmen doing some grinding

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on a blue belthorn, which is right off the B-52.

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It's like an exhaust outlet kind of thing.

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With what I did today, I showed you guys

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what a weld surf tube is.

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We have to certify in all our seven different metals.

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I weld the titanium stage because that's what the IGB

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on the B-52 is made out of.

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It's the inlet of the B-52 engine itself.

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They tend to get overheated and they crack

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and they call us to weld them up.

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We make a lot of the aircraft parts from scratch,

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a lot of them aren't made anymore

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since the B-52s are so old.

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So we machine these parts and keep the B-52s up in the air.