WEBVTT 00:00.009 --> 00:03.829 Joel Goodman . Joelg , double OD 00:03.839 --> 00:07.429 MA N . Um , yep . So I'm Sergeant Joel 00:07.440 --> 00:10.630 Goodman . Um , I'm an aviation fuel 00:10.640 --> 00:12.751 specialist with the Royal New Zealand 00:12.751 --> 00:14.973 Air Force . Uh , what am I doing here ? 00:14.973 --> 00:17.029 We've embedded with the POL team and 00:17.029 --> 00:18.862 we're delivering fuel to fuel to 00:18.862 --> 00:21.084 aircraft . Uh , the experience so far . 00:21.084 --> 00:23.889 Um , it's been very eye opening . 00:24.030 --> 00:26.239 There's definitely a lot more aircraft 00:26.250 --> 00:28.472 than what I'm used to larger aircraft . 00:28.559 --> 00:30.930 Um , so we're pumping lots of , uh , 00:30.940 --> 00:34.169 large quantities of fuel , uh , smaller 00:34.180 --> 00:36.790 aircraft , uh , or perhaps more 00:36.799 --> 00:39.021 aircraft but smaller quantities of fuel 00:39.021 --> 00:41.188 that we're pumping . Yeah , it's a big 00:41.188 --> 00:43.410 beast . It's a very big beast . There's 00:43.410 --> 00:45.577 a lot of moving parts . Um , but we're 00:45.577 --> 00:47.410 happy to be a part of it to help 00:47.410 --> 00:50.689 project that air power . Um , it hasn't 00:50.700 --> 00:53.033 really been too challenging at all . Uh , 00:53.033 --> 00:55.144 the equipment that we're dealing with 00:55.144 --> 00:57.311 is more or less . It's very similar to 00:57.311 --> 00:59.644 what we have back home . Um , it , yeah , 00:59.644 --> 01:01.756 it hasn't really been too challenging 01:01.756 --> 01:03.978 at all and I think that that bodes very 01:03.978 --> 01:06.089 well for the interoperability between 01:06.089 --> 01:08.311 the countries . My favorite part , it's 01:08.311 --> 01:10.422 a tough one but I think it's just , I 01:10.422 --> 01:09.699 think it's just hanging out with the 01:09.709 --> 01:11.876 team . Yeah , hanging out with all the 01:11.876 --> 01:13.820 different people and hearing their 01:13.820 --> 01:15.987 backgrounds and their stories . Not so 01:15.987 --> 01:18.098 much , but I think there's definitely 01:18.098 --> 01:20.320 been a lot of sharing of culture , um , 01:20.320 --> 01:22.653 and the differences between each nation . 01:22.653 --> 01:24.820 Yeah , this is my first time in Guam . 01:24.820 --> 01:26.987 It's definitely a lot hotter and a lot 01:26.987 --> 01:29.153 more humid than what I'm used to , but 01:29.153 --> 01:31.431 I'm enjoying it . I'm enjoying it . So , 01:31.431 --> 01:33.765 for us at the moment , we're still , um , 01:34.220 --> 01:37.250 still just , uh , picking things up and 01:37.669 --> 01:39.790 getting , getting used to , um , 01:39.800 --> 01:42.069 operating with everyone else . But 01:42.849 --> 01:45.127 hopefully for the rest of the exercise , 01:45.127 --> 01:47.293 they will let us loose on the , on the 01:47.293 --> 01:49.127 flight line and we'll be able to 01:49.127 --> 01:51.150 operate in a solo capacity without 01:51.160 --> 01:53.216 someone holding our hand , I guess , 01:53.290 --> 01:56.769 day to day . Well , we initially , we 01:56.779 --> 01:59.001 do the checkpoint , so we bring all the 01:59.001 --> 02:01.223 vehicles online , make sure they're all 02:01.223 --> 02:03.446 serviceable , ready to go on the flight 02:03.446 --> 02:05.501 line . Um , and then we'll just wait 02:05.501 --> 02:07.723 for the first fuels to start rolling in 02:07.723 --> 02:07.370 and then we'll jump in with our 02:07.379 --> 02:10.779 American counterparts and crack on 02:11.429 --> 02:13.860 and how is it working ? It's good . 02:13.869 --> 02:16.036 It's good . Um , you can be out on the 02:16.036 --> 02:18.202 flight line for quite a long time . So 02:18.202 --> 02:20.369 it's nice to have someone to talk to , 02:20.369 --> 02:23.210 um , and just get there , find out who 02:23.220 --> 02:25.220 they are and what makes them tick , 02:25.449 --> 02:27.505 very slight differences . But at the 02:27.505 --> 02:29.671 end of the day we're all military . So 02:29.839 --> 02:33.020 I think we all have an understanding of 02:33.029 --> 02:35.500 why we're here , what we're here to do 02:35.570 --> 02:38.440 and that we've got a joint purpose . I 02:38.449 --> 02:40.616 believe we're here to , uh project air 02:40.616 --> 02:43.139 power into the Pacific . I think we're 02:43.149 --> 02:43.949 doing a good job .