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I'm master sergeant Joshua E with the 1

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27th AM X SI AM A weapons section chief

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and also the Ace team lead for this

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trip . Ace team is an agile combat

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employment team . Our goal is to be

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able to land aircraft in different

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environments , refuel and reload those

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and get them back into the fight as

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soon as possible . We linked up with

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the 284 ASOS and we asked them if we

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could have our personnel go out to the

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range with them after they saw how

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highly motivated we were , they started

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to invite us on other training

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opportunities , being around others

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that are very interested in training ,

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very interested in getting better .

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They're very motivated if that is the

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mentality that they have . You wanna be

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around that . We are generally in a

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combat area , controlling that aircraft

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to get them to drop that on any enemy

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targets . So they have been tasked with

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the new mission set which requires more

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field craft , meeting the aircraft

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outside of their airfield and then away

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from their normal day to day , secure

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location . I

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hope we continue to have this

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relationship because I do find it to be

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beneficial . They are the personnel

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that are working on the aircraft that

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we use . If any of this training ends

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up saving their life while they're

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conducting their operations at the end

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of the day , it's worth it .