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I'm Captain Chris Gonzalez and I fly ,

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I'm a pilot for the B 52 out of Mia Air

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Force Base , North Dakota .

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Currently , uh we are deployed at in

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the United Kingdom at Ref Fairford

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bomber task force . So we're out here

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basically supporting uh our partners

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that are in the area both in U com uh

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Centcom and also Africom . Um And so

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we're flying missions out here to

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basically show a presence and in

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support of those allies and our NATO

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partners .

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So for me , it's super exciting because

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this is my first BT F . So really ,

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it's my first deployment being kind of

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off station . Uh getting to see uh uh

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kind of new scenery , a new area and

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integrating with uh countries that

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actually had no idea that we would

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actually integrate with . Super

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exciting . Uh glad to be a part of it .

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Glad to be here .

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It's really important uh because uh for

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us as air crew , it gets us out of our

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comfort zone that we're usually at . So

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back at home , we're pretty familiar

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with uh all the local area and the

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procedures that are out there when we

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get out here uh it gets us out of our

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comfort zone . Um It gets us working ,

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gets us thinking about uh new tactics

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and procedures and things like that .

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And also it helps us uh communicate

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with uh other nations , other countries

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and see how they do things . Um

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So us as a long range

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bomber , uh shows basically our

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capability to come out here uh to be

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able to come out of uh out of home

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station and really be able to have a

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presence uh in the area and be able to

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show our , our allies that we're here

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in support of them .

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Uh So the greatest impact that we have

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is uh we're integrating with our

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partners here . So we're in the area

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and we're showing them um that we're

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here and we have their backs uh

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hopefully , and stabilizing , you know ,

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uh in the region .