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- [Narrator] I can't stress enough,

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how important you are to our team.

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COVID-19 is serious.

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It's highly communicable

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and has already affected many countries.

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A disciplined sense of
urgency is essential.

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(gentle music)

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(background chattering)

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- So this just goes
right near your forehead.

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It doesn't touch or anything.

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Awesome, and this gets,
there are two (mumbles).

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(jet engine rumbling)

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And then you'll probably wanna cover that.

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Well we were asked to
come here about March 11th

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when COVID started increasing
throughout, to the area.

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And our commander asked us to pretty much

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screen all aircraft, inbound
and outbound, all passengers.

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And we have questions that we ask,

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we ask them do they, have
they been in close contact

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with anybody that's
confirmed case of COVID-19,

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and we also ask them symptom questions.

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Just myself and Senior Airman
Frensley that are here,

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the two medics, and we
do screen, no matter,

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we're the only two medics
here that do the screening,

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so no matter what, 24 hours,

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whatever time the flight
comes in, we're there.

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- My home stage and I do flight MedTec,

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so we actually go to IFEs

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or we would respond to medical clearances,

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so I'm usually responding to IFEs.

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But we're usually doing sitting at a desk

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and doing med clearance all day,

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so to actually be on that
flight line and be doing things

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that revolve around actual
medical care is great

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and a fun thing to do. (laughs)

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- You know, we're a very resilient group.

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When we got here, we was in Charlie,

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and we had to let go
of a lot of our people,

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and especially days,
they were very resilient

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in making sure that the
mission was executed.

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And then with the COVID-19,
it's just one thing

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after another, we just remain adaptable.

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Flight Chief, he created
a COVID-19 Wing Protocol.

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And what that is, is we
team up with the med group

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and what we do there, is
when a plane comes in,

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we ask them a series of
questions to identify

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whether they might be
at risk for COVID-19.

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- And I'll hold onto this too.

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I know! (laughs)

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Hello, sir, how are you?

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(people chattering)

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- [Announcer] First
question of the survey,

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have you been in close contact

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with any person over the last...

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- From there we do a temperature checks

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to confirm that nobody has a fever.

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And also we have a little
bit of a different mission

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with each type of aircraft.

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So what I mean by that is,

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the Marines and Army come
through here as well.

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So if they're not going to Ali Al Salem,

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then we do random temperature checks.

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For all Air Force that comes in,

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we do 100% temperature checks

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and give them the quarantine order,

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if they are supposed to go to quarantine.

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And so we help start the
process of quarantine.

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- [Lauren] As you may already be aware,

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you are ordered into quarantine

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by the Lead Commander,
Colonel Rodney Simpson.

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Please note you have the right to appeal,

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if you choose to appeal--

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- The great thing about this

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is we're pretty much
guarding the gateways.

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So we're the first ones
that anybody interacts with,

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and we're the first ones to alert anybody

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if we feel like anything is amiss

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or needs to go up the chain of command.

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I like the fact that we're
pretty much on the front lines.

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As a nurse, it's just a
little bit different work,

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I'm used to doing patient care.

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So I like the fact that
it's given me opportunity

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to do something different.

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So that's what I like best about it.

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- Ever since we came here,

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our officers, enlisted members
have been super calm now.

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'Cause they know that
we'll take care of things

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and making sure the Gateway is kept clean.

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(gentle music)
(aircraft engines rumbling)