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They always say like without weapons ,

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it's just another airline . You know ,

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since at the end of the day , our job

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is to provide air support . It's cool

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because we get to actually see aircraft

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take off and come back empty . No , my

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name is Senior airman , Karina Lopez

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and I'm a uh armament technician . I

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think weapons itself . It's feels like

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two different jobs because I've worked

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flight line and I've worked back shop

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and they're both like , you learn

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completely different aspects of it . We

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work hand in hand with them . We have

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to have equipment ready for them in

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order for them to complete their

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mission , which is like to have the jet

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ready to fly out now . So I think we

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all play a little role in that and you

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see a lot of flight line like they need

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the help of age , they need the help of

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crew cheese . So we all have to help

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each other in order for all of us to go

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home . Everybody plays a

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critical part of the mission . It's

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like learning your tools and being able

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to fix stuff on your own

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in the most proud of every piece of

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equipment that I am able to accomplish

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or push out because if you install one

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thing wrong , the round won't go in .

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It causes a jam is worth a lot of money .

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So there is a pressure to do it , like

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to do everything correctly .

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I'm senior Gutierrez and Maduro is

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aircraft armament .

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So our main roles here for us would be

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to make sure that all of our weapon

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systems are good to go for whether they

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come back from the fight line or

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whether we receive malfunctions . Um

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Our job is to make sure that they are

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turned in a timely manner and get set

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back out there so we can maintain the

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mission . Uh

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The main thing that we do here is

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basically just make sure that the F-15

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maintains uh its air dominance ,

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whether it's air to ground or air to

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air ,

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the tempo is amazing . I love it , it's

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fast . You know , we really do a lot of

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good work back here and whatever we do

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back here definitely does have a huge

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impact on the mission on the fire line .