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My name is Stephen Curry . I work as a

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staff sergeant and I am a technician

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egress stands for either for like to

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leave or to exit out of . And our job

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is important because we are one of the

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last life lines for the pilot to

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escape the aircraft . If anything was

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to happen , our career field requires

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its own ac because the system itself

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deals with a lot of components from

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oxygen bottles to explosives in the

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seats to P dot Twos which measure the

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air flow of the seat while it's in

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some traits about our job that people

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don't know is that we don't actually

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test our systems because you can't

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really test an explosive once you use

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an explosive , that's it . So that's

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why we always run like a two man two

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verification system because we have to

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be very detail oriented . Well , along

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with being detail oriented , you also

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have to have mechanical skills , um

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have the ability to actually work

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together with other . So team work ,

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what makes us different than other

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maintenance fields is that we work in

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the back shop as well as working on the

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flight line , which we do most of our

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works as far as like seats , um , time

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changes in the shop itself . And then

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as far as like on the flight line ,

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we'll usually do maintenance as far as

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like raising tilts , taking canopy off

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and actually taking the seat off . And

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during the inspection process , I guess

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to say we are most . So before pre

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fighting begins , that's when we do all

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of our inspections in the event of a

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ground emergency , other personnel are

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trained to use one of our components ,

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which would be the external jettison

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handle , which is looking at our right

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hand side of the aircraft . And that's

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what will actually jettison canopy

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itself , not the seat , but just the

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canopy . In order for them to get to

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the pilot . As a traditional air

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guardsman , I began my career while I

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was going to college at State

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University . And during this whole time

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period , I learned mechanical knowledge ,

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uh being able to work with people and

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also leadership skills which I was able

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to transfer into my civilian job today ,

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which is at BMW in South Carolina . And

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what I do there is uh equipment service

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associated which I deal with the

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robotics , pneumatics and other

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equipment that's on the line as where

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the plane deploys to . We follow . We

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give the a chance to go home to their

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families and to have that reassurance

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that they're able to come home safely

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every time they fly