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- [Narrator] To confidently
execute their mission,

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air crew personnel need to be able to rely

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on their equipment and know that

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it will function in a worst-case scenario.

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That's where air crew
flight equipment airmen

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like Senior Airman Jeremy Chavez come in.

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- We are the technicians that
maintain survival equipment

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for pilots and air crew members.

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Some equipment includes
parachutes, helmets,

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night vision goggles, life rafts including

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the one that's behind me,
that sort of equipment.

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We have the same call at
the last to let you down.

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Basically, we're the last resort

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for the air crew members and said pilots.

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Events, save for like a
fighter pilot, he ejects out

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of the aircraft, he's got
his parachute going out.

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Once he lands with his parachute,
he's got his survival kit

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so that way, he has items
necessary to survive, evade,

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and do whatever he needs to
do to make it back with honor.

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Senior Airman Nathan Eckert,
Kunsan Air Base, Korea.