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- I'm Airman First Class Kiren Coffee

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I'm a Mission Generation
Vehicle Maintenance Technician.

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Doing my job requires
many different things.

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Sometimes it's just researching parts,

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sometimes it has to do
with troubleshooting.

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It's a fun job but it's one of those ones

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where you kinda have to be willing

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to be a jack of all trades.

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You know, there will be days
when there's not a lot going on

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and instead you're just
maintaining the shop,

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you're cleaning up things,

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you're checking to see
what needs to be replaced

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or how much fuel or oil we have left.

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Things like that.

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A day to day for me, would
be coming into the shop,

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usually I'm gonna know what
vehicles I would be working on

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from the day before

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or my shop leader will come to me and say,

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hey this just came in,

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this is what's wrong with it

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or this is what the technician

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or the operator is saying is going on.

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Can you look what it is
and I would go grab a TO

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and try and troubleshoot from there.

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There's always someone on
standby that is ready to go out

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during day or night,

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any weather condition, anything

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and fix that vehicle.

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It's critical to the mission because

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without vehicle maintenance,

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every single one of these
machines that you see next to me

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wouldn't operate
effectively and efficiently

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and we need to keep the
flight line continually clear

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for the Global Hawk to be
able to take off any hour

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of the day or night
which is what allows us

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to be able to have that
reconnaissance affect.

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To be one step ahead of our
enemies at every given moment

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and that's what makes Vehicle
Maintenance so imperative

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to the Global Hawk Mission specifically.