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The average day . For me .

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Wake up , coffee , come to work ,

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figure out what we're doing for the

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night . You've been roots .

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So I like working with my hands . I

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like fixing things . I like working on

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cars and motorcycles . This is no

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different . There's just more at stake .

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You do something wrong , somebody could

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get hurt . I joined the Air Force . I

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wasn't super ecstatic about doing it .

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I was in a bad mood all the time and

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miserable all the time when I made

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staff , things started to turn around

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for me with like individual effort type

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things . So like nothing where I'm

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relying on somebody else to put in an

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award package for me . I started doing

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pretty good and they were like , do

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this DCC cop .

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Think of your DCCs

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like classic car rebuilders in a way ,

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and think of the comp as a car show .

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The better your jet looks , the better

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you look as a as a crew chief and a

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dedicated crew chief for your aircraft .

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We were cleaning and doing ops checks

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up until 10:30 last night and then

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waking up at 3:30 to be back here this

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morning for the com we got it done . We

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got it done .

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Luke Air Force Base we have . Insert

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number here of F-35s at every single

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base they've got 2 or 3 full up units

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25 , 30 aircraft . We've got a lot of

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these jets and they can save a lot of

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lives . That's why I wanted to do it

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realistically to help people , um ,

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being able to keep our guys alive . So

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I guess I've tried to adapt that to

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this job as much as I can and

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maintenance is a lot of don't be above

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it because the second you think you're

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above it is the day that you're gonna

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be doing it . I guess at some point I

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just realized like this is my job now .

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And I gotta get good at it because what

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we do here , I mean . What this

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aircraft does can decide whether .

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Our guys in the field live or die . I

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would take knowing my job and getting

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them . Wow . I would

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take knowing my job and being able to

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get that aircraft off the ground over

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being salty . At the end of the day ,

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it's uh . It's me and mine versus them

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and theirs , and me and mine are gonna

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win . All day every day .