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- I realized I wanted
to be in an environment

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where I'm out and working with my hands,

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so I chose this and I
don't ever regret it.

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I love doing it.

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I don't think I could
have done anything else

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for the Air Force.

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I'm Staff Sergeant Cesar Cortes,

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and I'm from the heavy equipment shop,

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also known as dirt boyz.

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We work on the perimeter fence,

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clean the streets, we trench,

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we do water digs,

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we can build flight
lines, airfield runways,

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we pave, build roads, maintain roads.

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Really, almost anything you can think of,

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we almost touch it.

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When I got in and I realized
how much you really do

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I was a little taken back,

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it was crazy to me.

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My favorite thing right
now is to help people,

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to train the younger Airmen,

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especially in equipment that
we don't touch so often.

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I think another great thing
about our career field

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is our brotherhood.

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You can go anywhere

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and a dirt boy will always have your back,

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and no matter what you
do you can count on us.

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Once a dirt boy, always a dirt boy.

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(upbeat rock music)