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I am Staff Sergeant , Michael Stella ,

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I am with the 180th fighter wing engine

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shop . My main job is to fix engines

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basically we deal everything engine

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related that's installed and

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uninstalled . The best part about

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working for the engine shop is

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definitely the sense of fulfillment

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that you get every day coming to work ,

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knowing you're working on something

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highly technical , knowing that you're

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making a difference , um , knowing that

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you get to do something that 1% of the

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world, you know, gets to do. One of

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the cool things about the F-16 engine

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um , and one of the things that really

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sets it apart from other engines is

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it's actually quite versatile . We

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actually use this engine in F-15 as

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well . Um , so bases like Lakenheath

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that use the F-15, we can help work on

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their engines , they can help work on

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our engines . That helps with total

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force readiness . Um , in the sense

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that there's more than one place that

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can accomplish the mission . We all

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work together , We band together and

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get the job done no matter what it

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takes . The one thing I would want

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people to understand about this engine

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is how much faith a fighter pilot puts

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in all of the people that work on his

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jet because when you look at that jet ,

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it's basically a rocket , a fuel tank

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and an ejection seat . The faith that

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he puts in us when we do our job

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is incredible and everybody takes that

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very , very seriously. It's an incredibly

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powerful machine and everyone respects

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it for what it is.