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- [Narrator] Ever want to know what it's like

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to be a Boom Operator?

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Members from the 134th Air Refueling Wing got

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to experience the job firsthand

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in the Boom Operator Simulator System.

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Master Sergeant Eric Jones explains more

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about this unique opportunity.

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- Today we want to at least put together a little workshop

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for other agencies on base

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to come down and kind of get to see

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what we do on a regular basis.

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You know, our main mission here,

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we're a Refueling Wing.

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So, the tankers that are on the ramp,

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you know, we take off, we meet up with a receiver,

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we give them gas to go do their mission,

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but there are a lot of support agencies on base

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that help make that happen.

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So, we have this tool here on base,

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the simulator for the Booms to come in and practice

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and get proficient through some of the malfunctions

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and that sort of thing.

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So, we wanted to open it up for some folks

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who had maybe never seen the inside of a tanker,

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the inside, down in the boom pod,

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never have seen a refueling.

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We wanted to give them the opportunity to come down

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and at least take a look and see what we do

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on a regular basis and what they help support

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and enable us to do on a regular basis.

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- [Narrator] For Airmen First Class, Alfred Rodriguez,

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this experience was even more special

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since he recently changed jobs from Avionics

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to Boom Operator.

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- So, my favorite part about the BOSS-system

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is whenever I come in, I'm not able to go up in the air

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and actually make contacts, right now,

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because I haven't been to school.

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So, this provides me the opportunity to come in here

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and actually learn the system

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and learn how to make connections

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and kind of judge the distance between the aircraft

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and the boom.

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Just able to get up there and fly.

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- [Narrator] Reporting from McGhee Tyson,

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I'm Senior Airman, Darby Arnold.