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Airman 1st Class Jacqueline Pardee was looking for new challenges and new opportunities. Then, the Traverse City, Mich., native took a look at the Michigan Air National Guard.
“I wanted to do something different. And, I wanted to go back to school eventually,” she said.
Today, she is an air crew survival equipment specialist, working for the 191st Operations Support Squadron at Selfridge Air National Guard Base, about 300 miles away, in the opposite corner of the state, from her hometown.
“I went to basic training and then to tech school for about three months. Now, I am working here at the base full-time for a while,” as she gets her initial hands-on training, she said.
Pardee and her fellow Airmen in the 191st OSS work to ensure that life rafts, radio beacons and other survival items needed by the pilots and boom operators in the 171st Air Refueling Squadron are ready to go. She also provides survival skills training to the air crews.
“It is a lot of variety,” she said. “You’re working in your own shop, but we’re also working with the pilots, with the aircraft out on the flight line. I like having different things to do.”
Senior Airman Kenneth who also works as an air crew survival equipment specialist, echoed Pardee’s comments.
“There’s always something different to do in this shop,” he said.
The 191st OSS supports KC-135 Stratotanker operations from a home station of Selfridge Air National Guard Base.
| Date Taken: | 11.02.2019 |
| Date Posted: | 11.03.2019 11:11 |
| Story ID: | 350274 |
| Location: | MICHIGAN, US |
| Web Views: | 205 |
| Downloads: | 1 |
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