When a Navy pilot takes opposite to he always has a hidden source of safety.

When a Navy pilot takes opposite to he always has a hidden source of safety. disclosed of the limelight, Aircrew Survival Equipmentman (PR) 2nd Class Brian K Nick is the last to obstacle the pilot down.

"Our do job-work is to keep them alive. From ejection until they're get backed we make sure [the pilots are] in the best condition we can preserve them in." said Nick, individual of the head supervisors at the Intermediate Aviation Maintenance Department, Naval Air Station Oceana, Virginia Beach. Va.

PR are responsible for inspecting and maintaining parachutes, life rafts, personal flight gear and other survival aviation equipment that pilots use In unforeseen occasion situations.

"We work forward any system that supports life after the picot ejects" said Nick.

When something happens in the air, the pilots rely upon equipment to keep them alive, whether it's a backup oxygen regulator or a parachute. Nick. along with all PR offers many hours and tedious attention to detail into his work, because if something goe unsuitable with the equipment, lives could be lost

"When I hear about single in kind of our pilots going down. the first thing I want to know is if the pilot is all right." said Nick. "Second I want know if my raw material worked."

Behind the sights PRs are saving lives. each time a pilot takes opposite he can rest assured that there are Sailors like Nick who are making permanent p lots are coming back in united piece.

"When you haven't heard anything about a PR that's when we know we did a pious job."

Armato is a journalist assigned to Navy/Marine Corps recently made knowns Washington, D.C.

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