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(thundering drums)

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- I'm Captain Elizabeth Holloway.

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I'm a pilot here at the
39th Rescue Squadron.

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My father was in the Air Force
for 28 years active duty.

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He was enlisted as a
survival school instructor

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and then crossed-trained
to be air crew life support

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and he was also in a search
and rescue unit, like I am.

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He did earn his commission

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and was an F 105 and F
111 pilot in Vietnam.

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And he encouraged me my entire life

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to pursue anything I wanted
and following in his footsteps

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something I'm proud and honored to do.

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One of the most memorable
missions flying here

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was when we were tasked to support

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the rescue for Hurricane Harvey.

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So we flew long nights,

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pretty challenging flights,

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over the waters of both
Texas and Louisiana.

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Refueling the rescue helicopters
who were then tasked with

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rescuing families

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and different individuals.

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Just last year we did a
flyover for a Vietnam veteran

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who was killed in his
first mission in Vietnam.

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He was a Jolly Green pilot,

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he was a combat search and rescue

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helicopter pilot in Vietnam.

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They just recovered
his remains a couple of

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years ago, and his family asked our unit

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to do a fly over for
his burial in Arlington.

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And for us to be a part of that,

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just a small part of
that, it was unbelievable.

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One of the most memorable
and moving flights

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of my career.

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(wistful music)

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For me it's somewhat bitter-sweet.

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We're gonna lose some
amazing men and women

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who we're experts in their fields,

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we're not gonna have our flight engineers,

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or our radio operators anymore.

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And our navigators are now transitioning

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to become combat systems operators,

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so it's really shaking-up
the crew complement.

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And for me, when I started out,

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looking at different aircraft that I was

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interested in flying, I
always knew that I wanted

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to fly crew aircraft.

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And that's really what
this H21-30 has been,

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the Legacy model is truly
flying a crew aircraft

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around the world with

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experts in their field

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who, in the reserves, in
a small unit like this,

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they're not just experts in their field,

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they're your friends,
they become your family.

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So, not being able to turn around and ask

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your flight engineer
their expert knowledge,

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we're gonna have to rely on computers,

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which has its pluses and minuses,

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but losing that human interaction

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is something that will
be a strange transition.