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I love flying , I mean it's definitely

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unique experience . I've seen so much

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of the state and other states as well .

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Just flying everywhere . Normally

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people pay for it or you have to get a

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lot of training for it and here you get

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trained , well getting paid . So it's

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awesome . So with the California

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National Guard , I have done fires ,

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water dropping mission , search and

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rescues . Mostly up at Mount Whitney

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and Mammoth . I deployed with the unit

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in 2017 , 18 to Iraq where we flew all

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over Iraq , kuwait and Syria . And

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yeah , just a bunch of missions that we

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do a lot of support missions throughout

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the state for a day to day operation .

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We initially start off with kind of a

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meeting to see what the priorities are

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for the aircraft . We split off into

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groups and we try to get as much

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maintenance done as we can on a flying

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day . Uh it really depends on the

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mission , but it's a little bit more

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exciting because you got to go out ,

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you gotta fly throughout the state . Uh ,

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sometimes during the day we'll fly to

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uh maybe Monterey or Sonoma or

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out to the coast , you know , do some

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training out there and then come back

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eat and then fly out for the night

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vision portion . So I initially joined

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for school . I joined because I wanted

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to be self reliant and then I kind of

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fell in love with it . So I'm still

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still going to school and still in the

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National Guard helping out the

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community and you know , trying to make

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a difference during , you know , search

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and rescues and fires , you know , just

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knowing that you're out there helping .