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- [Narrator] You know,
we spend endless hours

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creating exhibits, and
when they walk outta here

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and thank us for what they've done,

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that is the most rewarding.

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We have the opportunity to be the mecca

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for airlift, and that's our story.

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- My name is Rick Shea and
I'm the director slash curator

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here at the Travis Air
Force Base Heritage Center.

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These people have a thirst
to know what you guys do.

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You know, they all can skyward
and see that we fly airplanes

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and it doesn't take rocket
science to figure out somebody's

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in there flying that airplane,

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but what they don't think
about are the maintainers.

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They don't think about
the logistics people,

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the POL drivers and the supply people

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that make parts available
and fuel available.

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And that's what we need to
get out there to the folks.

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We need to tell them
what it is you guys do

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and the only way we can do that

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is through active duty volunteerism.

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And I know everybody's time is crucial

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and everybody has way too little of,

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but I think there's a certain
amount of responsibility

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that goes along with
that uniform to educate,

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so I think it's coming upon us

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to educate them on their past.

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For just the opportunity,

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to tell them where Travis came from,

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what it arose from, the
phoenix that it became.

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Not only that, but talk
to them a little bit

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about their enlisting heritage.

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Keep telling our guys here,

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I wanna take us to the next level.

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I wanna be legend in the same breath

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as the National Museum of the US Air Force

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at Wright-Patterson.

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Now whether that's a far-fetched dream

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or unattainable dream, I don't know.

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But that's where I'd like for us to be.

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(upbeat rock music)