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- The base could not run without water,

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as well as fuel, fuel is vital
to the Air Force's mission.

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We could not go anywhere
without that fuel.

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Being in the military,

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you're part of something
bigger than yourself.

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It's just, it's really motivating.

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(happy music)

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I've always knew that I was
going to be in the military

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at some point.

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I'm the fifth generation in my
family to join the Air Force.

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My great-great-grandfather
was in the Army Air Corps.

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And then down the line, his son,

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and his son, all the way to my dad.

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I enlisted back in 2016.

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At the time, I had no idea what CE was,

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or what it consisted of.

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But I very quickly found out.

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Water and fuel is one of
the biggest components of CE

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that there is.

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But we're providing water
to this entire base,

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and we also provide water

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for the local communities
surrounding the Air Force base.

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Everybody calls us if they have leaks,

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or if they have issues with a water line.

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What we do on the fuel side is allow fuel

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to get from tanks underground
into the tanks on the plane.

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And if you don't have fuel, obviously,

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you're not gonna be in the air,

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and you're not gonna be dropping bombs,

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and you're not gonna be
carrying out the mission.

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(plane engine roaring)

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You get to work with your
hands, you get to build stuff,

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you get to see a finished
product every day,

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and it's something that I really enjoy.

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(upbeat music)

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CE is definitely a
brotherhood and a sisterhood

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within the Air Force.

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I can walk down to any other
shop in my career field,

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and ask them for help on a job,

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and I'll immediately have five
people out there helping me

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with whatever I need.

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It's extremely close community.

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It's taught me mechanical
skills, working with my hands.

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It's taught me a lot of
social skills as well,

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you're going out on the
job site with a customer,

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you're taking to people.

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Every morning, it's a new issue

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which requires a new solution,

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and a lot of that requires
thinking outside the box.

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It's not always just attaching
a pipe with a wrench.

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I like going out there,

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finding something that's obviously broken,

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blasting water, it's flooding.

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The people there are freaking out,

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we show up calm and we're like,

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"Okay, we'll get this done."

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I just know that that
impacted that person's day,

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we relieved that stress.

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And not only that,

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but we had a finished
product when we left.

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And we had something we
could say, "We did this."

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And then we can be proud of it.

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(uplifting music)

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Some days it is a little
bit harder than others

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to stay motivated, you gotta
wake up at 5:30 in the morning,

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you gotta shave, you gotta
head to PT three times a week,

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and some days you're
working 24 hour shifts.

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But it's worth it in the end.

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Every morning when you
put on that uniform,

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put it on all the way.

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Come to work, ready to put in 100%.

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Once I get my eyes open in the morning,

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once I walk in those door,
I'm ready to tackle the day.

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If you like to get your hands dirty,

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if you like to engineer,

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if you like to build things with your mind

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or with your hands,
this is the job for you.

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I'm really proud to tell
my family and friends

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that I'm an engineer for the
world's greatest military.

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I can't think of another job
that I would rather have.

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My name is SrA Trenton Goode,

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and I am a United States
Air Force Civil Engineer.