 Yeah Could you tell us Deployment strategy, I guess you could call it how How many airmen are already cross green in the one seventy seventh or going training now to Have multiple skills Yes, sir. So major Amerson go by brem from the one seventy seventh fighter wing down out of Bank City Sort of Jorge here So to answer your question, sir, we are actively training our entire fighter wing maintenance team for this new mission Real quick. I'm not sure what you have heard so far, but behind me. We have one of our block 30 f16s affectionately call that the Viper Multi-woke it for aircraft. Not sure what you discussed so far, but capable of air to ground air to air information We care just about anything in the United States Air Force as far as for this rise So for this case concept Then to answer your question. We are making a big move to get the entire Do you have airmen now currently cross-grain you have somebody who gets both low bombs and refuel Yes, sir, my man right here starting for a he's a cross-train He's a ammo troop as well as cross-train to launch and recover the f16 Where have you come where you've been deployed before? In my career been to Middle East in Afghanistan UAE Iraq, Syria Vascular, what do you like about flying the F-60? It's sports car. It's a Jackfall trades master of none. You'd like to call Love flight. It's been an amazing Career been planning for about 10 years. It means a lot so a lot like Corporations in the civilian sector like we're constantly looking at ways to do things better faster more efficient This ace concept is a way to do that in which we can take the correct size force for deploy them to a location To take away some of that distance in time. We have to get to an objective or mission So really to me, it's doing things smarter I guess I didn't write a size force Your first name please You are cross-trained in what? Yeah, so I really go from there and I cross-trained into weapons so Essentially you load them on an aircraft or the aircraft and send it away What was that experience like for you to get that kind of training? Were you nervous? So in our career fields we Work hand-in-hand with the weapons troops. It wasn't really hard to say everything I was familiar with now just have a cable and I go further Sure, I guys are able to go out there and Not sure if I can get the times It's not the same danger See you by a side. It's a very large J. A. M. E. R. O. C. O. E. R. K. Where are you from, Sarge? Where am I from? From Buffalo, New York You come down here for your National Guard duty? No, I moved down here in 2000. To Wrightsdown basically? You're the base? No, I live out in Lumberjacks All right Sarge Are you part of this ACE program as well? Yes, sir I'm a fuel superintendent. We take care of the refueling on the aircraft and Pretty much as a refueling aircraft, we get the planes up in the air so they can do that over a lifetime. What about this cross-training? Are you part of that as well? Yes, sir We have me and one other individual. We go, we part of the surveillance team. We go on a basis in certified a flight line and things like that and short at the fuel Facilities in areas that we're going. It's fit for the ACE program. So how challenging would you say that is to, I mean you're a specialist in fueling, right? Yes, sir. So how challenging is it to pick up a new specialty? It's not picking up a new specialty. It's just doing my job, but ensuring that the other places are fit to do our job in those areas. So it's not really a change of So one thing you had mentioned to be yesterday You don't want one part to break because something one thing going wrong could disrupt multiple things, right? Yes Oh, okay. So yeah, we go to different facilities. We check the facility. We check for We do check the short of the vehicles and I couldn't have used kids can't handle the pressure the back pressure and things like that the aircraft push out So that's something that we have to make sure we have to check the vehicles for weeks You've never done that before though, have you? We do it on our trucks yearly. It's an annual requirement on our vehicles. I take the pressure checks on our hoses, pressure checks on our vehicles and everything else in short air They can fit the mission and our daily inspection is also a pressure check that we put on the set on at least this system here this truck here with the 6,000 regular refuel pump and our hydra system we do it daily Pressurize a bunch of torque because I'm ensuring I can get Any back pressure from the aircraft or any operation. If you look up behind us, how many gallons is in it right now? That's a 6,000 gallon vehicle or 40,000 pounds of air. The pilot goes by miles The fuel's got to go by gallons. How does that work in translating between the two? We weight the blade of the fuel that's 6.7 miles per gallon So we know it's like the gallons are in clubs, it gets on the line by 6.8 That can get in the clouds there. It's a little bit of math but it's a little bit Now are you a full-time guard member? Are you in one week a year or one week a month, two weeks a year? No, I'm full-time. I'm usually working in a year and I'm just one away So what's a typical day like for you? A typical day is when we go to a county, we sample the trucks, sample the fuel in the system We go to a regular system check And pre-cube aircraft, they're ready for the next week At a moment ago you mentioned checking for leaks, how small a leak in a truck like this could be a problem? Any leak in this product is a problem The one gallon Thank you, thank you I'm Tech Sergeant James Kirchhoffer. I'm the Kircheefer of the 108th Aircraft Maintenance Water NKIRs Kircheefer of the 108th Aircraft Maintenance Water, 108th Aircraft Maintenance Water Simulated number six center wing tank and this is what one of the bladder cells looks like that's on a KC-135 And what fuel shock uses this for is We coordinate ourselves with the 87 fire department and we do extraction exercises on an annual basis Just in the event if there's a trap entry while we're working, we like to work with that department to ensure There's a full sign of the tank safer. So just to give you guys visual aid, this is the number six center wing Cell on a KC-135. This is one of 16 of the bladder style tanks on that airframe. It's a fuel tank. Yes, ma'am This is one of 16 So there's a combination of 16 bladder bladder cells and there's also integral fuel tanks on that airframe So the bladder is as you can see here is rubber the integral tanks are a metal tank, so So the advantage between it on commercial airliners where they keep your actual lugs when you're flying from state to state We actually keep fuel in those locations to give to our receivers. So it's extra fuel. Yes, sir It increases the range to where the aircraft is able to hold 220,000 pounds of fuel Yes, sir KC-10 the most that I've seen on a KC-10 it's 320,000 pounds of fuel but My personal team we take Your first name sergeant. Uh, Herbert. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Thank you Great job. Sure So what you guys witnessed today was a hot refuel exercise with the KC-135 that we used during the agile combat employment exercise in San Juan, Puerto Rico The reason why we do hot refuel it reduces it significantly reduces our time on the ground And increases the survivability of our assets when they're under threat from a near-peer capability We usually turn the jets around and depending on how much fuel we're putting on It takes about a few hours to turn this jet around in a combat situation We can minimize that down to about a couple get that down to one again Typically if we're coming off of a combat sorority, we just didn't offload to a bunch of receivers We're landing at a forward location We're putting on just enough fuel to get back to where we started or to make it to the next stop So it shouldn't be that long. So an hour is about ideal You're good. Sorry, Colonel. Colonel, thank you so very much. You bet