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We deploy as small teams who do big

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strategic things for us . Mission

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Command and Multi-capable is in our DNA .

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It's critical to our success .

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We travel . I mean , we're always on

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the road . We definitely lived up to

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the name of of roadrunners . I remember

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Warner Brothers TV that coyote was

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always trying to get the Roadrunner .

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But it was so fast , you know , get

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from one spot to the next . I think

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that's my thought on what the

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roadrunners are . Get in , get

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out . Get it done fast . The overall

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mission of the Alice is really to

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deploy anywhere at any given time for

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some of our mission partners and do

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sensitive compartmental information

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facility construction . What we do here

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is provide a space so there is no

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leakage , and what our ISR folks do

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stays with them . We have the realm of

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design and execution . Take a facility

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that has 4 walls and ceiling . And a

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floor and completely rip it down and

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build it back to a skiff . Skiffs , if

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you don't know that's a sensitive

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compartmented information facility .

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Any information processing SCI material

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which can be both on the secret level

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or TS level requires a skiff in order

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for it to be processing . What this

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allows you to do is really block off a

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lot of the RFMinations that you might

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get from like a cell phone , uh ,

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Bluetooth , anything wireless , right ?

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Any signals that might be leaking this

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definitely protects sensitive

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information . To assist our

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intelligence community with any kind of

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skiff accommodations , SIF renovations

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or any upgrades , I think we're gonna

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start to have a bigger role in the

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future fight . The infrastructure that

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we do for that intelligence community

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is gonna be a big part of that . It's

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not your regular base CE construction .

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I thought I knew a lot of construction

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until I came here and it's just a whole

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different world with our other AFSEs ,

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we work hand in hand a lot with them

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here in this unit . Every year we we

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try to sit down for at least a week and

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then integrate with all crafts together

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because that's what we do every day on

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the mission and it's actually very hard

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to get our whole squadron in one shot

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because most of the year we're

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scattered around the world . When we're

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gone , our families might run into some

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issues around the house and really kind

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of teach the basics on the HVAC system

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within your house . If you get a hole

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in your wall where the airmen can come

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back , take it back to their families ,

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and not get charged a lot of money for .

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Contractor to come out and do something

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when it's a very basic repair . It's

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all right there . Those are very easy

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for swap belts . Collaboration with

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AFSCs here in Alice is important

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because it cuts down the days and makes

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our life easier . It's a bonus when we

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have members , electricians or HVAC or

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plumbers that know how to do structural

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work . So if you do it too tight ,

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you'll start seeing it either bubble or

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start , you know , coming in on itself

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that's a little bit too tight . A lot

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of the times we go to countries where

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they don't have the materials we have

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back in the states , so we have to

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think outside the box . A great way to

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get prepared for those different

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scenarios that we get exposed to is to

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rely on our counterparts . Like I

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myself , I've even been a structures

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technical instructor , but I came here

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and the fact that I'm working with

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electricians and mechanical and all

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those different trades , I'm learning

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so much in my last 4 years here .

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Typically what happens uh we install

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and upgrade DD circuits and we

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sometimes have to put in conduit .

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Usually it's like either a preexisting

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or we have to run new conduit . So with

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these 3 switches is what we installed

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uh for today while we teach them how to

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do like 90s bends or offset bends just

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to get it to the destination that we

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want to . When we have everyone in

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Garrison , we try to utilize that time

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to hone on our skills . We're working

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on some of our MCA training where we're

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taking folks from different career

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fields and putting them with our

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different crafts . Here in particular

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we're working on li fiber . We use

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what's called a links connector , which

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is a fused sliced connection . We

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integrate with COM and the logistics ,

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so we have LRS background folks here

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and we have the the communications we

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team up with the com guys because

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ultimately these skis that we're

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building , a big part of that is the

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communications portion .

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We're out here at the UD efficiency

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range creating some multikeable airmens ,

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and what we like to do here is just

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familiarization for what they might see .

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Yeah , and that's an Italian one and we

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know that just how it looks . We're

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going over ordinance and IED

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familiarization and then we're walking

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around and , uh , doing lane so people

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can get some training calling in 9

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lines . We have different examples of

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different categories of UXOs and IEDs

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so they can find an item and then get

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some practice calling in the item and

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also get feedback from us . But the EED

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squadron , we tend to be training a lot ,

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and that's due to just a progressive

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threat like ever evolving weapons ,

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some pressure plate , yeah , you just

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step on it , metal contacts once it

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goes , but teaching them and showing

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them , it always puts a smile on my

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face because it's nice to be able to

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see new things and just meet new people .

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Some of the training we did , we really

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hit hard on the sea burn aspect of it .

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You get your dominant hand until the

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charles are backside too . Have the

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person decon this side , then switch

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hands , decon the other side . Around

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these times it's kind of nice where

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everybody kind of gathers back together

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because it's been so long . Most of the

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times I run into people I'm like ,

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where you been kind of thing so it's

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kind of a nice regroup . We bond so

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much when we're on the road . Honestly ,

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it's really just a brotherhood when

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you're out there . They are great

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collaborators across crafts . This week

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was especially critical for us to be

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able to increase that capacity . It's a

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mindset , but it's also the technical

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capacity to be able to collaborate .

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It's a great unit to be part of . The

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roadrunners are ready to go at any

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given time . Alice is one of the most

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tight knit units that I've been with .

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I can genuinely say that the future

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fight , we have a big part in it , and

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we provide a very strong foundation for

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that fight no matter what customer you

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are .