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- So my cousin in Italy,

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he used to travel airshows
all over the world

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and his favorite airplane was the F15.

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And he had a little model set up

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in the basement of his parents house

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that he had a series of F15's

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with the line crew and everything else

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and all the support equipment.

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And I would sit there and
try and play with them

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and I would break most of them.

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But I just, I had a fascination for it.

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Because, mainly because of
him and just the design of it

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and he'd show me pictures
and would show me videos,

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stuff like that.

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So as I got older and I started
watching more and more of it

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it became a love affair, to be honest.

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So when I saw the opportunity
there was a job working again

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in the engineering department

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on the F15s and around air craft,

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I knew that I had to do it.

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A lot of the things I did in the Air Force

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and different duty titles I had,

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different positions I
had, especially on the 15,

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whether it's on the line or off the line

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it puts me, pretty much,
in the dead sweet spot

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for what I'll be doing here.

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And it gives me a chance
to touch the aircraft again

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and hopefully help everybody
out in the Air Force

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that work on these aircraft as well.

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I always wanna do the
best I can at what I do,

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regardless of what job it is.

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The thing is, I wanna be able
to affect the younger airmen,

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and/or units out in the
Air Force that have F15s

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that might be having problems.

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I wanna try to do something
that's gonna allow them

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to have an easier job
because I didn't have one.

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Things were harder back in the day.

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But, try to make improvements

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with those that are still out
in the units working on them,

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fixing them, flying them,
keeping them in the fight.