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(marching band music)

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- Four short months after
the attack on Pearl Harbor,

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Sixteen B-25 medium bombers
and their crews performing

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a feat never before accomplished,
launched from a hornet

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aircraft carrier and initiated a surprise

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attack on the Japanese Empire.

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Having no long range bomber
capability available,

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B-25s were quickly modified, reducing

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weight to increase performance,
while cruise-trained on

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short distance takeoff techniques.

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The plan called for the hornet
to move the aircraft by sea,

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close enough for a one-way strike mission

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on the Japanese mainland.

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The mission was a resounding
success of innovation,

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ingenuity, surprise and extreme bravery.

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The spirit of technological
innovation, ingenuity and

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patriotism lives on an Air
Force material command as we

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deliver solutions to
America's Warfighters.

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Today aircraft can complete
missions across the globe

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without a pilot ever leaving U.S. soil.

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They have built-in systems
that can detect a target,

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abort a mission and save pilots' lives.

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Simply put, we change the nature of war.

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And behind every platform,
innovation and Air Force vision

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of the future is an AFMC airman.

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Which means the only thing
AFMC has to deal with,

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is everything.

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We built the Air Force of
today and we are changing the

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nature of warfare for tomorrow.

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From ground, to space,
to human warfighter and

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everything in between.

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We Impact the entire lifecycle
of every Air Force system.

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New ideas born of basic
laboratory research,

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technology development and areas such as

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artificial intelligence, 3D printing,

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quantum science and more.

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We prototype and experiment.

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We test and fueled
advanced Air Force systems.

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We support supply chain and
maintenance of both the new

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and aging aircraft and
systems our fellow airmen need

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to complete their missions.

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Whether you're talking about
60-year-old B-52 bombers,

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cutting edge software,
next generation warfighting

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capabilities, our nuclear arsenal or the

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Air Force uniform of the future,

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AFMC is where our Air
Force comes for solutions.

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Beans to bullets, roads to
commodes, razors to lasers,

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our Air Force depends on
us to preserve our heritage

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and modernize for the future.

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We are command of innovators, an extreme

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combination of dreamers and doers.

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Necessity is the mother of
invention, but we also have to

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look at what the necessities
will be decades from now.

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We've been turning imagination
into reality for years.

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We were there for the
creation of the parachute,

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the computer mouse, and GPS.

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We push limits on hypersonics,
we train astronauts.

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The cutting edge base of the future,

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we're building it.

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A system that can save a pilot's life,

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we invented it.

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The hardest part of our job
is figuring out what airmen

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need that they don't
even know they need yet.

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Our job is not simply to
stay ahead of technology.

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If it were just rocket
science, that'd be easy.

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Our job is to stay ahead of our enemies,

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to ensure the Air Force is ready and able,

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Anytime, anyplace.

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If you need it, we'll get it to you.

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If it doesn't exist,
we'll make it exist and

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then get it to you.

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We do our wartime mission everyday.

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Aim high, airmen.