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(Airman 1st Class Kieran Coffey)
I'm Airman 1st Class Kiren Coffey.

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I'm a mission-generation vehicle maintenance technician.

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[Music change to upbeat, rhythmic)

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Doing my job requires many
different things.

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Sometimes it's just researching parts. Sometimes it has to do with troubleshooting.

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It's a fun job, but it's one of those ones where you kind of have to be willing 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, and, instead,

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you're just maintaining the
shop. You're cleaning up things.

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You're checking to see what needs to be
replaced, or, you know, how much fuel or oil we have left.

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Or other things like that.

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But 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; or, you know, my shop lead will come to me and say

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"Hey, like, this just came in; this is what's wrong with it." 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, then, I would go grab

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a T.O. and try and, like, troubleshoot
from there.

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[Upbeat music; diesel truck engine]

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There's always someone on standby that is ready to go out during day or night,

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any weather condition, anything, and fix that vehicle.

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[upbeat music; diesel truck engine]

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It's critical to the mission because
without vehicle maintenance,

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every single one of these machines that you see next
to me wouldn't operate effectively and efficiently.

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And we need to keep the flight line completely clear for the Global Hawk to be able to take off,

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you know, any hour of the day or night.

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Which is what allows us to be able to have that reconnaissance effect.

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You know, to be one step ahead of our enemies at every given moment.

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And that's what, you know, makes vehicle maintenance

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so imperative to the Global Hawk mission, specifically.

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