Imagine that you are twenty years old and you have just been deployed to Uzbekistan at a staging area for military incursions into Afghanistan. You are in the most alien environment imaginable and still trying to get your bearings. You have been trained by the Air Force to maintain military aircraft and your knowledge is about to be tested. A pilot comes up to you as you are struggling to install a part and informs you that if he can’t get the plane off the ground in the next five minutes, there is a Seal team down range that may not make it out. “Holy s#!t”, you think. “This is real. Somebody else’s life is in my hands.”
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