All right again, what kind of week would it be on the active self-protection podcast?

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Clark, how are you, sir?

I'm doing good.

Thank you.

So we talked a little bit beforehand.

Did you want to elaborate on what it is that you do?

I think it's fascinating.

It does involve working alongside engineers.

And as people have probably heard me mentioned before in the podcast, I live in Tucson, Arizona, and you can't swing a dead cat without hitting an engineer here from somewhere else in Tucson.

So do you want to talk to us about what it is that you do exactly? What is, as a production manager?

Sure. I work for Lockheed Martin here in Fort Worth, Texas. I've been in aviation about 35 years.

I'm a supervisor, multifunctional manufacturing supervisor over a part of the build of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter. It's a big title. I have a crew of about 15 people that assemble and put together the center wing section of the F-35. I've been on several builds over the years or several parts of the build over the last 13 years with Lockheed Martin.

I left to go to Florida and work on one of our facilities there.

I just got back to Fort Worth in June.

Texas is where my heart's at.

I love working in the big, the big environment, getting to see the product every day,

get my hands on it, and, of course, seeing them fly out.

I work on a military base, so, you know, we deliver right out there.

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