9 Robins Air Force Base is home to 54 mission partners, most who share a common goal of providing depot-level maintenance to a variety of Air Force aircraft.
Aircraft going through the sustainment process have egress items that need to be removed, stored, and carefully maintained. That job belongs to the 78th Logistics Readiness Squadron Munitions Flight.
“There are hundreds of different types of egress items ranging from ejection seat catapults to gas lines and transfer assemblies,” said Master Sgt. Joshua Pectol, 78th LRS Munitions Flight chief.”
The flight might be small, but it has a big impact.
“We supply munitions for 32 different customers with an annual allocation of more than one million assets, valued at $2.9 million,” said Pectol. “We support munitions for security forces armory, Air Force Office of Special Investigation, explosive ordinance disposal, combat arms training and maintenance, Air Force Special Operations Command as well as egre
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By Tech. Sgt. Jonathan McCallum, 919th Special Operations Wing Public Affairs / Published April 13, 2021
Senior Airman Chris Peterson, 919th Special Operations Aircraft Maintenance Squadron crew chief, tightens bolts on a new propeller mounted on a C-146A Wolfhound, using a torque wrench March 23, at Duke Field, Florida. Peterson is part of a special training program designed to create maintenance specialists to operate interchangeably in deployed locations, keeping crews smaller and saving the Air Force money and manpower. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Jonathan McCallum)
Senior Airman Chris Peterson, 919th Special Operations Aircraft Maintenance Squadron crew chief, inspects connections on a new propeller mounted on a C-146A Wolfhound, as part of a special maintenance training program March 23, at Duke Field, Florida. Staff Sgt. Andrew Roberts, 919th SOAMXS engine mechanic, looks on from below as an instructor. The program is designed to create maintenanc
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