 People typically think that fuels as a career field tends to only put fuel on aircraft, but we do so much more than that. The 96 logistics-oriented squadron fuels management flight provides the lifeblood that keeps Aglin's mission moving. The fuels management flight provides cryogenic and fuels support to every unit at Aglin Air Force Base. We come over here to our cryogenic facility inspect our area and start issuing, you know, good old locks and cryogenics is basically any substance with a low boiling point temperature. Here at Aglin we handle liquid nitrogen and liquid oxygen. Cryogenics is super important, especially liquid oxygen. Liquid oxygen gets converted into aviators breathing oxygen and basically it prevents our pilots from experiencing hypoxia. Liquid nitrogen is used for several applications throughout the base, but three main ones would be for the the test, COM and medical missions. As a fuels technician you need to make sure that you are well versed in the different areas in fuels management, whether it be fuels accounting, fuels lab, fuels facilities, fuels distribution. You need to see how all those different sections play a part in the mission, in that again the warfighter gets what it needs. POL takes such great pride in their inspections and we need to make sure that our systems are operational and safe pushing clean dry fuel out to the aircraft. Our typical day over here starts at 06 so we come in and we inspect our entirety of our system. We drain our filter separators which like a filter fine sediment and coalesce water to ensure that we're pushing clean fuel out to our aircraft and our mobile refueling units. The coolest part of my job is like what any TOL crew will tell you is seeing the jets going up and knowing how big of a hand you played and getting those jets up. I think the coolest part of fuels is that we get to touch so many different parts of the mission. Everything requires fuel to move and being such an integral part of Eglin's mission is very satisfying. Without fuel pilots are pedestrians.