 I'm Staff Sergeant Tiffany McCoy. I'm a KC-135 Crew Chief here at the 171st. Each aircraft has a team of refuel aircraft maintainers, also known as Crew Chiefs, assigned to it. McCoy is assigned to KC-135 tail number 591468 or, as her team refers to it as, 46th grade, that's what we call it. McCoy has recently been upgraded to Assistant Crew Chief. This comes with the luxury of having your name added onto the side of the jet. It's pretty cool actually to have your name on an aircraft. It's something you don't think about coming out of tech school because it's more of an active duty type thing. So I thought and then once you become a technician it's pretty cool. A typical day as a Crew Chief varies. You get your assignments in the morning and then by lunchtime you could be on something completely different. For instance, we'll take yesterday, we ended up towing two aircraft and then by lunchtime we were putting panels back on a totally different aircraft. So it just depends on what they need for the day. Definitely a total different ball game. When it's winter though you have more operations to get aircraft ready. Definitely have to watch out for the ice snow. You have to clean the aircraft off before you can get them ready to fly. So it's definitely different than just a normal day if it's sunny outside. The part about being Crew Chief would definitely be traveling. I have never left home before basic so getting to travel and see new places is definitely cool and also getting to meet new people is pretty awesome as well. Crew Chiefs are unique breed of airmen. They feel that the most rewarding piece of the job is. Getting safe airplanes off the ground for sure. Just producing good aircraft for our pilots and our booms. Reporting from Pittsburgh, I'm Erin First Class, Zoe Walkenfuss.