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- Hi Lily, my name is
Technical Sargent Joe Boyer.

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I'm a crew chief on our
F16's here at the 180th.

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I'm here to answer your fourth question.

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To answer your question about
specific markings or symbols

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on our aircraft, we have a
couple of different types.

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First, we have the names of
the pilots that is on the left

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hand side of the canopy
just below the glass and

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on the right side we have
the name of the mechanic

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that is on the aircraft day-to-day.

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Additionally, we have
markings for the base awards

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and if you can see it has
different gold pieces on there

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for the number of times
that we have won it

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and that is to show off,
just some base pride.

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Finally, we have markings
that are for emergency

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type situations and here
we have one for emergency

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personnel so if there's
any kind of situation where

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the airplane is on the ground
and the pilot can't get out

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they can pull that cord that's
underneath this panel here

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and then that'll jettison the
canopy off without anybody

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in the cockpit actually doing something.

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And lastly we have one for
the ejection seat and that

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is just to warn everybody
that there's explosives

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in the cockpit.

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Working our way down the
airplane, another place

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where we have symbols, is on our intakes

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Here we have on the left
side the 112 Fighter Squadron

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patch, every unit or
group in the Air Force has

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their own symbol that's unique to them,

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so we always like to display that as much

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as we can to show where we're
from and what we represent.

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Finally, on our tail we have
a couple of different things

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that represent where we come from.

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On top we have a green
band with Toledo in it

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to represent where we
are from as well as a bee

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as our unit mascot for the stingers.

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We have OH to represent
that we're from Ohio

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and then we also have
the number 151 which is

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the serial number for
the airplane and kinda

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goes as the nickname for the jet.

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It also has the AF89 which is the year

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that it was made, 1989.

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The stingers which is our
name and then the few WMIA

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in honor of them as well
as the stars and bars which

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represents that we are from
the United States of America.

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So I hope I answered your questions Lily,

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thanks for watching and stay
tuned for the next episode.