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I'm Rob Kunzig . I'm a video producer

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for NATO and today I get to fly in a

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fighter jet .

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I'm here at the Euro NATO joint jet

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pilot training program at Shepherd Air

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Force Base in Texas . 14 NATO allies

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trained students and instructors here

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making it one of the most multinational

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programs in NATO . Now , I've never

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been in a fighter jet before , so I

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have no idea what to expect . So we're

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gonna go talk to the instructor , the

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guy who's gonna be in the front seat

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flying the aircraft . Thanks for the

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ride . You ready for this ? Uh We'll

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find out what can I expect when I'm up

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there . You're gonna feel some uh

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negative GS , you're gonna feel some

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good roles . You're gonna also feel

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some positive gss when we're making the ,

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the hard turns . So should I , should I

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be worried about getting sick on this

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or I wouldn't worry about it . It's not

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gonna make a difference . Yeah .

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it .

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Let's go triple ground back .

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10 seconds . Great .

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21 . All right . Take me a visor off

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now , I can see that . Very good .

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Oh , that was a beautiful picture .

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Could be baby . Sure . Here we go . You

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ready ? Yeah , I'm ready . Do it .

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She is .

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I do think I felt my stomach jump a

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little bit on that one . You scared of ?

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Me too . How long have you been flying

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since 1992 ? 92 ?

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321 go .

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Thank you . That looks great .

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Yeah , 20 . Going to

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be my . Yeah ,

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that

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thought that nausea would subside a

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little bit . It's still there . What's

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amazing to me after being up with those

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guys and seeing how nato's fighter

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pilots are trained is the amount of

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fiscal strain involved with the job . I

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have . I seriously have no idea how

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they do it for the men and women here

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from the 14 NATO allies that make up

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this program . The reason why they're

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here is because flight for them is a

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dream , but that dream is tempered by

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the fact that should they be called

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upon to defend the alliance ? They're

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going to have to do this for real .

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Should NATO have to defend itself ? A

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big part of that effort will be air

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power and that's them . They are the

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air power .