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- Okay, I'm supposed to pause and smile.

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Alright, is that enough?

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Alright.

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(scissors cutting)
Awesome, yay!

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(people applauding)

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- Today is a big ribbon cutting ceremony

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for the 513th as they open
this brand-new facility.

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- Well, this group has
been sort of a TFI unit

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for about 22 years.

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We're maintenance squadrons, we have two

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of them, AMXS and MXS.

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And they are embedded with
the active duty maintenance.

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So they work side by side out on the ramp,

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on the aircraft, pretty much seamless.

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(aircraft engines whooshing)

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So this building has been
in plans for over six years.

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Two previous group
commanders started this.

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We were located in an old hangar

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where we had our air control group,

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one of our operations squadrons,

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and then, way across the
runway, about a 15 minute drive,

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over on Reserve Road is where we had

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our other operations squadron.

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This building brings those
three entities together.

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I think that the proximity and the energy

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that we've got going on here will increase

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that relationship.

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(people talking)