1 00:00:00,914 --> 00:00:02,322 - I'm Staff Sergeant Joshua Williams 2 00:00:02,322 --> 00:00:04,593 from the 914th air refueling wing, 3 00:00:04,593 --> 00:00:09,251 and we are currently traveling at 40,000 feet in altitude 4 00:00:09,251 --> 00:00:12,883 at approximately 500 miles per hour, that's ground speed. 5 00:00:12,883 --> 00:00:15,101 Joining me here is Colonel James. 6 00:00:15,101 --> 00:00:16,277 How are you doing, sir? 7 00:00:16,277 --> 00:00:17,690 - Doing well, how are you? 8 00:00:17,690 --> 00:00:20,109 - Now sir, you're not from the 914th, 9 00:00:20,109 --> 00:00:21,751 what are you doing on our aircraft? 10 00:00:21,751 --> 00:00:24,675 - Okay, so I'm from the 446th 11 00:00:24,675 --> 00:00:26,521 Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron. 12 00:00:26,521 --> 00:00:28,282 We flew from McChord, McChord Field 13 00:00:28,282 --> 00:00:30,816 and we flew our C17 unit. 14 00:00:30,816 --> 00:00:32,654 So we're doing some familiarization training. 15 00:00:32,654 --> 00:00:34,495 We got an opportunity, these guys were 16 00:00:34,495 --> 00:00:37,028 coming through McChord, to our base to do 17 00:00:37,028 --> 00:00:39,126 a training mission and we hopped on, 18 00:00:39,126 --> 00:00:41,366 and they're letting us ride with them. 19 00:00:41,366 --> 00:00:43,533 So, for me, I'm a C17 guy, 20 00:00:44,432 --> 00:00:48,099 and I haven't flown on the KG135 in a while, 21 00:00:49,066 --> 00:00:51,131 and I need to do some familiarization. 22 00:00:51,131 --> 00:00:52,924 I need to brush up on this aircraft, 23 00:00:52,924 --> 00:00:55,841 so that's what we're doing today, me and my crew. 24 00:00:55,841 --> 00:00:58,909 - Now sir, what are some of the training scenarios 25 00:00:58,909 --> 00:01:02,878 that you're walking through as we're flying? 26 00:01:02,878 --> 00:01:06,656 - Okay, so what we'll do, every Aeromedical Evacuation 27 00:01:06,656 --> 00:01:09,897 training mission as a standard will always 28 00:01:09,897 --> 00:01:12,799 have an aircraft emergency and a patient emergency. 29 00:01:12,799 --> 00:01:14,859 Then we have have built up scenarios 30 00:01:14,859 --> 00:01:19,016 and our trainer, or what we call the MCC, their package 31 00:01:19,016 --> 00:01:21,644 and they're going to have some scenarios to run today. 32 00:01:21,644 --> 00:01:24,867 - [Joshua] Now, when you're going through this training 33 00:01:24,867 --> 00:01:26,671 and you're jumping in here with another team 34 00:01:26,671 --> 00:01:29,479 from Niagara Falls, 914th, how often does 35 00:01:29,479 --> 00:01:32,627 that play out in the real world? 36 00:01:32,627 --> 00:01:35,420 - What's gonna happen is our people are gonna be sent 37 00:01:35,420 --> 00:01:39,198 to where they're needed out in the system. 38 00:01:39,198 --> 00:01:42,718 And each unit will head up sister units 39 00:01:42,718 --> 00:01:45,949 that are also given that call up at the same time. 40 00:01:45,949 --> 00:01:47,758 And so, let's say we're gonna put 41 00:01:47,758 --> 00:01:50,591 crews out in Ramstein, in Germany. 42 00:01:52,167 --> 00:01:53,249 It's not gonna be us. 43 00:01:53,249 --> 00:01:54,512 Our squadron's not gonna be tagged. 44 00:01:54,512 --> 00:01:55,976 Our bucket is gonna be tagged. 45 00:01:55,976 --> 00:01:57,611 So out of those three squaders, they're 46 00:01:57,611 --> 00:02:00,480 gonna be filling that crew assignment and so, 47 00:02:00,480 --> 00:02:02,138 in the real world, we're gonna repo crew 48 00:02:02,138 --> 00:02:04,457 more often than not. 49 00:02:04,457 --> 00:02:07,267 And it's probably always a repo crew. 50 00:02:07,267 --> 00:02:09,709 - So as you can see, this training is critical 51 00:02:09,709 --> 00:02:12,942 for members of the 446th and the 914th 52 00:02:12,942 --> 00:02:16,179 as they prepare for real world deployment. 53 00:02:16,179 --> 00:02:19,277 Josh Williams, reporting from the 914th air refueling wing 54 00:02:19,277 --> 00:02:21,646 from 40,000 feet altitude at 55 00:02:21,646 --> 00:02:24,029 500 miles per hour ground speed.