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Aviation Maintenance
Lescher visited Patrol Squadron (VP) 1 and Electronic Attack Squadron (VAQ) 139 at Naval Air Station Whidbey Island, Washington, and Helicopter Maritime Strike Squadrons (HSM) 35 and 49 at Naval Air Station North Island, California, where he spoke with maintainers about their strong progress in bringing increased velocity to aircraft repair.
He talked to maintainers about the Maintenance Operations Center / Aircraft on Ground (MOC/AOG) Cell best practices rolling out across the Naval Aviation Enterprise and its impact on maintenance turnaround times and the number of mission-capable aircraft. MOC/AOG spotlights and eliminates barriers keeping an aircraft from being mission capable.