All fighter pilots hope nothing goes wrong with their aircraft in flight.
But if something does cause them to have to bail out, they can rely on the critically import ant work of egress troops. Whether the ejection seat works or not quickly tells a pilot and an air crew egress shop if the job of maintaining the much-needed equipment has been done correctly. Egress troops here have seen their work in action twice since the beginning of NATO's Operation Allied Force. Both times the pilots made it home safely, thanks in part to egress maintainers. Air crew egress troops replace damaged canopies to ensure fighter pilots have no distractions while flying missions.