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my name is Lieutenant Terrence Reeves ,

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call sign Rocket . I'm a side of the

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9th Bomb Squadron Ideas and I'm

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currently a co pilot on the B

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one .

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So

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I joined the Air Force initially out of

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family heritage in my family , we have

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people in the military dating back

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every generation down to the civil war

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and I've always wanted to be a pilot

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and this is one of the only avenues I

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could get there was through the Air

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Force ,

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I'm

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proud enlisted . Uh I wanted to be a

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crew chief , so I want to be a

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maintainer and then my whole intent

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when I enlisted was to become a pilot ,

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I remember being a crew chief , going

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to work and watching the planes take

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off and fly around . And uh I'm

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thinking of myself like that , that's

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gonna be me up there one day definitely

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gives me a real sense of understanding

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of like what all goes into generating a

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sortie . Uh getting that perspective as

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far as like , you know , maintenance

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crews showing up and then they're out

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there for hours even before the air

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crew shows up and then they're they're

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tidying up the jet once we land . So I

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really try to bring that to work with

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me basically . So when I get out to the

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jet , I try to , you know , have that

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empathy towards them and it's been

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great . I have to remind myself that

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I'm not a cruise ship anymore , so I

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can help out with the maintenance

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being out here . It's been great . So

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it's , this has been like seven years

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in the making basically . So enlisting

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wanted to become a pilot and beyond the

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operational side of the Air Force . Um

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It's really neat , yeah . Mhm . Mhm .

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Yeah ,

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yeah .