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My name is Master Sergeant Alan

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Hufferlin , and I am an aircraft

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section chief with the 5505th Fighter

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Generation Squadron . We are a salvage

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team from Aviano Air Base , Italy . Our

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team consists of 13 personnel ,

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including myself , ranging from crew

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chiefs to avionics and environmental

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specialists to fuel shoppers and metal

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specialists . Late 2023 while deployed ,

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this jet was involved in a Class A

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mishap where a piece of support

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equipment struck the right external

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tank , causing a rupture and in turn

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causing a massive fire that engulfed

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the entire aircraft . Our purpose here

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is to salvage as many parts as we can

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that we deem serviceable by visual

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inspection , and then Try to induct the

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aircraft into the aerospace maintenance

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and regeneration group . On these

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aircraft there are millions of dollars'

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worth of parts . So by us taking these

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parts out of the aircraft , putting

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them back in the supply system , we're

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saving the Air Force millions of

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dollars and putting these Air Force

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assets back into the supply system for

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the entire F-16 Enterprise to use .

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My name is Technical Sergeant Evan

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Shawback . I am the team chief for this

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pack and crate operation . The team

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here is an extension of depot . We are

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a depot field team , and we're here to

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pack and crate the S6 team behind us to

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send to the bone yard . But for the

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pack and crate portion , we remove the

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wings , major structural surfaces , and

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the vertical stabilizer as well , and

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then we'll lift the aircraft , put it

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onto a cradle , and wrap it in plastic

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for shipment . Uh , the main challenge

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is logistics . We have two different

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teams , one from . Aviano and one from

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Hill trying to get all those pieces of

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equipment and people into one place to

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make the operation happen is quite

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challenging . The team before from

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Aviano is here to do prep work . We

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actually do the physical packing great

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portion of the aircraft , so they'll

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take off major components that we need

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to do our job . The impact it'll have

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is it will remove the aircraft from the

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station that uses the base's resources .

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They can go back to the 309 Aerospace

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Maintenance and regeneration group to

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be salvaged for parts .