 AFE is a group of people that's responsible for taking care of the pilot's daily flying gear as well as parachutes, survival kits, and also life rafts. My favorite part about aircrew flight equipment is getting to know the pilots on a more personal level and making sure that their gear is safe and them having the trust in me to know that they can take that gear out anytime and it's going to work properly for them. AFE is important because we inspect all the pilot's gear, helmets, and harnesses, G-suits, we also repack parachutes and survival kits. A G-suit is almost like a pair of pants that they put on that inflates with air and it pushes the blood flow from the legs back up to the chest and the upper extremities so they don't pass out in flight. Aircrew flight equipment is going to be essential to the mission because they have to go out knowing that this equipment is going to work and it has to work or they won't be mission essential. They get their job done because of this equipment. The most rewarding part of my job is ensuring pilot safety, knowing that they're safe doing what they're doing. The motto back here in AFE is we're the last to let you down because we truly are when you're coming down from an F-16 in the air with a parachute.