1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:00,000 2 00:00:04,449 --> 00:00:06,671 My name is senior airman , Jake Walty . 3 00:00:06,671 --> 00:00:08,782 I'm an air traffic controller here at 4 00:00:08,782 --> 00:00:10,949 Morda Airfield and I belong to the six 5 00:00:10,949 --> 00:00:13,227 second OS S OS a day to day operations . 6 00:00:13,227 --> 00:00:12,050 As an air traffic controller here at 7 00:00:12,060 --> 00:00:14,227 mccord involve really just controlling 8 00:00:14,227 --> 00:00:16,560 the aircraft , clearing them , the land , 9 00:00:16,560 --> 00:00:18,727 clearing them for takeoff , issuing uh 10 00:00:18,727 --> 00:00:20,893 IFR and VFR departure clearances . But 11 00:00:20,893 --> 00:00:23,060 a lot of it is also involving training 12 00:00:23,060 --> 00:00:22,860 the younger airmen . They come in and 13 00:00:22,870 --> 00:00:25,092 we're really involved with molding them 14 00:00:25,092 --> 00:00:27,203 into real air traffic controllers and 15 00:00:27,203 --> 00:00:29,314 preparing them for going out into the 16 00:00:29,314 --> 00:00:29,170 career field . So not a whole lot of 17 00:00:29,180 --> 00:00:31,291 high stakes on the job , day to day . 18 00:00:31,291 --> 00:00:33,180 We're of course going to have our 19 00:00:33,180 --> 00:00:35,180 emergency situations are really big 20 00:00:35,180 --> 00:00:37,402 operations going on . But a lot of it , 21 00:00:37,402 --> 00:00:37,159 especially here at Mor involves just a 22 00:00:37,169 --> 00:00:39,336 really complex and differing scenarios 23 00:00:39,336 --> 00:00:41,280 every day . There's no set thing , 24 00:00:41,280 --> 00:00:43,280 there's no routine . Sure , you can 25 00:00:43,280 --> 00:00:45,336 clear your aircraft for take off and 26 00:00:45,336 --> 00:00:47,447 landing just like normal . But on top 27 00:00:47,447 --> 00:00:47,400 of that , you're going to be mixing C 28 00:00:47,409 --> 00:00:49,353 17 S with the fighter jets up from 29 00:00:49,353 --> 00:00:51,576 would be or aircraft from Boeing coming 30 00:00:51,576 --> 00:00:53,465 down or a lot of general aviation 31 00:00:53,465 --> 00:00:55,680 traffic and of course , just the army 32 00:00:55,689 --> 00:00:59,099 helicopters down at Lewis a lot of 33 00:00:59,110 --> 00:01:01,054 favorite days when it comes to air 34 00:01:01,054 --> 00:01:03,221 traffic control really involves seeing 35 00:01:03,221 --> 00:01:05,221 our team prepare for the air show . 36 00:01:05,221 --> 00:01:07,388 Last year . We worked the Thunderbirds 37 00:01:07,388 --> 00:01:06,639 that came in . That was really cool to 38 00:01:06,650 --> 00:01:08,650 see . But also we get the C 17 West 39 00:01:08,650 --> 00:01:10,761 Coast demo team that's based out here 40 00:01:10,761 --> 00:01:12,706 and they love to practice here and 41 00:01:12,706 --> 00:01:14,706 they'll do like three or four times 42 00:01:14,706 --> 00:01:14,680 every time they practice . We really 43 00:01:14,690 --> 00:01:16,857 just get to have a really cool upfront 44 00:01:16,857 --> 00:01:19,079 seat to their performance . So the most 45 00:01:19,079 --> 00:01:21,301 challenging part of the job is a lot of 46 00:01:21,301 --> 00:01:23,579 people think of the actual air traffic . 47 00:01:23,579 --> 00:01:25,579 Part of it is super stressful , but 48 00:01:25,579 --> 00:01:27,523 really , it just involves with the 49 00:01:27,523 --> 00:01:27,205 whole fluctuating shifts . You know , 50 00:01:27,214 --> 00:01:30,035 we go from morning to afternoon shifts 51 00:01:30,044 --> 00:01:32,100 and then afternoon to night and then 52 00:01:32,100 --> 00:01:34,044 sometimes spring will live there . 53 00:01:34,044 --> 00:01:33,595 We're going to have the overnight 54 00:01:33,605 --> 00:01:35,827 shifts and it's adjusting that schedule 55 00:01:35,827 --> 00:01:37,716 that really becomes challenging . 56 00:01:37,716 --> 00:01:39,938 Sometimes we support the mission pretty 57 00:01:39,938 --> 00:01:42,161 much just from making sure the aircraft 58 00:01:42,161 --> 00:01:41,754 get to their destination smoothly and 59 00:01:41,764 --> 00:01:44,275 efficiently and most important safely 60 00:01:44,434 --> 00:01:46,712 and really making sure that , you know , 61 00:01:46,712 --> 00:01:48,934 we coordinate with whoever we need to , 62 00:01:48,934 --> 00:01:51,156 to get these aircraft out on time . And 63 00:01:51,156 --> 00:01:50,194 it's really cool watching these 64 00:01:50,205 --> 00:01:52,316 aircraft take off and they'll fly all 65 00:01:52,316 --> 00:01:54,372 the way across the globe and support 66 00:01:54,372 --> 00:01:54,614 the mission overseas too .