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- [Andrew] From a very young age,

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I knew that I wanted to be an aviator.

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My dad told me, hey, you
should be a boom operator.

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He showed me pictures from
his day back in the Air Force.

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It's the best career in
the Air Force for sure.

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The boom operator is
the sole responsibility

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for anything in the back of the aircraft.

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As a boom operator on the KC-135,

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our mission is basically global reach.

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Fighters can only stay up
for an hour or two at a time,

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but with their refilling,
they're able to stay up

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eight, nine hours if they need to.

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There's no other career field

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where you get to see the
amount of aircraft we do

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or the amount of places we do

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and get to work with some great people.

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I'm Tech Sergeant Andrew Birmingham

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and I am a Boom Operator at
the 117th Air Refueling Wing.

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