WEBVTT 00:02.560 --> 00:04.210 - Vehicle Maintenance Journeyman. 00:05.810 --> 00:08.683 My job mainly consists of repairing vehicles. 00:08.750 --> 00:10.680 Helping people out with problems that they have 00:10.680 --> 00:11.880 with their own vehicles. 00:12.600 --> 00:14.150 Doing a lot of troubleshooting. 00:15.030 --> 00:18.003 Just a lot of hard labor, hard work, 00:18.170 --> 00:21.183 but it's all very fun and very rewarding. 00:22.470 --> 00:25.140 Before the Air Force, I was a student. 00:25.140 --> 00:26.640 I actually joined the Air Force 00:26.640 --> 00:28.390 almost directly out of high school. 00:28.430 --> 00:31.010 There were very few actual jobs, 00:31.010 --> 00:32.810 maybe side work here and there, 00:32.810 --> 00:35.623 but for the most part this is my first real job. 00:36.500 --> 00:38.810 Working with the team is 00:38.810 --> 00:40.660 a bit different than what I'm used to, 00:40.660 --> 00:43.384 because at home station and other bases I've been to, 00:43.384 --> 00:45.633 our teams were a lot bigger. 00:45.750 --> 00:48.253 We're talking something like 60 plus people. 00:48.420 --> 00:50.920 Here, there's only four total mechanics here 00:50.920 --> 00:52.220 at this specific squadron. 00:52.460 --> 00:55.163 So we all work together pretty well. 00:56.545 --> 00:57.603 We all share knowledge and different skills 00:57.603 --> 00:58.653 that we've learned. 01:00.069 --> 01:02.573 - An-lis-i Henderson, he's a really good guy. 01:04.080 --> 01:05.880 He's a five level but 01:06.762 --> 01:08.300 he seems to know a lot about the vehicles 01:08.300 --> 01:09.760 even though he's not RED HORSE. 01:09.760 --> 01:11.630 He just came in, meshed well with the team 01:11.630 --> 01:14.263 and he's been kicking butt every day that he's been here. 01:15.320 --> 01:18.420 - So one of the vehicles I was fixing was a Bobcat T250 01:18.690 --> 01:22.893 which is basically a mini version of a forklift. 01:23.280 --> 01:24.690 And so what was wrong with that Bobcat 01:24.690 --> 01:26.140 was that it was bogging down. 01:26.360 --> 01:29.160 You would lose a lot of power, black smoke all the time. 01:29.500 --> 01:32.573 So what we did is we actually removed all of this piece, 01:33.920 --> 01:36.420 pulled up this whole piece, pulled out the exhaust, 01:36.420 --> 01:38.773 the air filter, removed all of that. 01:38.990 --> 01:40.870 Dug down from standing at this point, 01:40.870 --> 01:42.590 dug down from standing from this point. 01:42.590 --> 01:44.680 Pulled out the exhaust, pulled out the turbo, 01:44.680 --> 01:45.513 pulled them out, 01:46.540 --> 01:47.490 put the new ones in 01:47.790 --> 01:50.497 and then reassembled it from that way. 01:50.497 --> 01:52.147 - That was a pretty good project. 01:52.370 --> 01:54.560 He just got in there, found out what parts he need, 01:54.560 --> 01:55.393 got the stuff on order. 01:55.393 --> 01:56.440 Once the parts came in, 01:56.440 --> 01:58.300 it was one day and it was back up and running. 01:58.300 --> 02:00.363 So he's a really good mechanic. 02:00.430 --> 02:03.643 Morris Hills could definitely use an airman like Henderson. 02:03.673 --> 02:05.503 Just being in any, 02:05.680 --> 02:06.610 being in this environment, 02:06.610 --> 02:09.080 being able to sustain the vehicles and stuff the way he has. 02:09.080 --> 02:10.210 I say back at home that 02:10.210 --> 02:12.260 he'd be twice the airman that he is here. 02:13.700 --> 02:15.850 - What would I like to say to other airman? 02:15.880 --> 02:17.457 I guess I would like to say to just work hard 02:17.457 --> 02:19.130 and be honest. 02:19.130 --> 02:20.413 Do the very best you can. 02:20.740 --> 02:23.440 Mistakes do happen but own up to those mistakes. 02:23.440 --> 02:24.303 Learn from them. 02:24.350 --> 02:25.860 Make sure they don't happen again 02:25.860 --> 02:28.363 and just do the very best that you can.