WEBVTT 00:04.610 --> 00:07.610 I am Sergeant Izzy Calla Morales . I am 00:07.610 --> 00:09.666 from Coronel City , South Cotabaro , 00:09.689 --> 00:12.560 Philippines , and I am an AVAB 00:12.560 --> 00:13.727 powerline mechanic . 00:18.319 --> 00:21.389 Power line is a mixture of a power 00:21.389 --> 00:23.920 plant shop and a line shop , which is 00:23.920 --> 00:25.976 like a marine thing because the navy 00:25.976 --> 00:27.976 does does it differently so the the 00:27.976 --> 00:30.142 Navy has a line check which deals with 00:30.142 --> 00:31.809 all of the flight line , uh , 00:31.809 --> 00:33.920 responsibilities of aircraft and then 00:33.920 --> 00:36.142 they also have a power power plant shop 00:36.142 --> 00:38.253 which deals with the engine . Of of a 00:38.253 --> 00:40.299 specific aircraft , but the Marine 00:40.299 --> 00:43.909 Corps we . Merge that into one so what 00:43.909 --> 00:47.209 we do is I'm an organizational level 00:47.549 --> 00:50.630 engine mechanic for the AVAP , but at 00:50.630 --> 00:52.908 the same time I'm also a line mechanic . 00:56.430 --> 00:58.541 When I joined I've I've always wanted 00:58.541 --> 01:00.860 to fly airplanes , but I always thought 01:00.860 --> 01:02.804 that , uh , being a military pilot 01:02.804 --> 01:05.519 would be cool now that I've been in for 01:05.519 --> 01:08.040 the amount of time that I have I've 01:08.040 --> 01:10.096 grown to love what I've been doing , 01:10.096 --> 01:12.151 which is turning wrenches and fixing 01:12.151 --> 01:14.262 aircraft with the marines beside me . 01:18.730 --> 01:20.897 Um , going to college prior to joining 01:20.897 --> 01:23.063 the Marine Corps helped me work on the 01:23.063 --> 01:25.569 aircrafts by just instilling 01:25.569 --> 01:27.791 responsibility even before I joined the 01:27.791 --> 01:30.410 Marine Corps . It's , uh , when you're 01:30.410 --> 01:32.410 at college , you're not living with 01:32.410 --> 01:34.632 your parents or I wasn't living with my 01:34.632 --> 01:36.970 parents . I was hundreds of miles away 01:36.970 --> 01:40.849 from them and , uh . It taught me to 01:41.050 --> 01:44.980 be independent . That transition 01:44.980 --> 01:47.819 from graduating high school at 16 to 01:47.819 --> 01:50.580 going to college was , it was , it was 01:50.580 --> 01:53.120 really big it was . Something I've 01:53.120 --> 01:55.120 never done before . I've never been 01:55.120 --> 01:57.009 away from home for that long of a 01:57.009 --> 01:59.839 period of time , so I went to college 01:59.839 --> 02:02.006 on a different island back home in the 02:02.006 --> 02:04.228 Philippines . I went to college in , in 02:04.228 --> 02:06.395 the capital , so that is , uh , way up 02:06.395 --> 02:08.506 north , and I'm from the south of the 02:08.506 --> 02:10.561 Philippines , and I had no relatives 02:10.561 --> 02:12.617 over there . I had nobody . I barely 02:12.617 --> 02:14.895 had any friends when I first showed up . 02:14.895 --> 02:17.006 It was a really big culture shock . I 02:17.006 --> 02:19.279 was from a fairly rural town . There I 02:19.279 --> 02:21.559 was at 16 years old , moved to a city 02:21.559 --> 02:24.820 where . It was a densely populated city . 02:24.970 --> 02:27.081 Um , I've never seen that many people 02:27.081 --> 02:28.081 in my life . 02:32.720 --> 02:34.831 Or one thing that I would like people 02:34.831 --> 02:36.942 to know about me is probably that I'm 02:36.942 --> 02:40.559 just A regular dude who's from another 02:40.559 --> 02:43.520 country serving a uh different armed 02:43.520 --> 02:45.880 forces working on the things that I 02:45.880 --> 02:48.429 love which is aviation or airplanes in 02:48.429 --> 02:50.720 general it's it's kind of a surreal 02:50.720 --> 02:52.720 experience honestly like growing up 02:52.720 --> 02:55.179 somewhere else and then being given an 02:55.179 --> 02:57.290 opportunity to to do the thing that I 02:57.290 --> 02:59.457 love or being around the things that I 02:59.457 --> 03:02.800 love while serving a country that has 03:02.800 --> 03:05.350 given me so much opportunities is a 03:05.350 --> 03:07.239 it's a very humbling experience . 03:13.839 --> 03:14.119 OK .