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First off, what keeps me motivated is not going back to where I came from. I just refuse
to fail. Originally I'm from Louisiana. My father was in the military, so we just moved
to Virginia. I was working at the ship yard, to be honest with you I hated it. But I didn't
know anything but the shipyard. I actually always wanted to join the Navy so I asked
my father and he was like, "You need to go with an aviation job, you can see the world,
you don't really... you got the option to be in a squadron, you don't necessarily need
to be on a ship." I was 24, I just ran with it, I ran with it. I'm AZ3 Travis Francisco,
I work at Tinker Air Force Base, VQ-4. I love it. it took me a hard time as far as A-school...
I don't think my mind was set, on paper pushing. Until I actually got here and I was like,
this job is really unique. Basically we're like inspectors. Anything the mechanics do
as far as like maintaining the jet to keep it up, they have to come to us. Because every
part has a serial number, so it's logged into our system. A number off could cost somebody.
That number could be how many ours that engine has left so if you don't pay attention to
detail you could cost somebody their life. I'm an ACFL for VQ-4. Because I feel as military
we should look like military, we have an image. That's why I'm here for, you know, to motive
them. I like what I do, everything I do , I do a hundred and ten percent. Failure is not
an option.