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Airman First Class Connor McDonald, left, and Staff Sgt. Tayrell Washington, both 74th Aircraft Maintenance Unit weapons load team members, use an MJ-1C bomb lift to transport a Mark 82 general purpose bomb during Green Flag-West 17-03, Jan. 24, 2017, at Nellis Air Force Base, Nev. Weapons Airmen enabled joint force training during the two-week exercise by loading weapons, inspecting jets and maintaining munitions systems. Some of the live munitions included the Mark 82 and 84 general purpose bombs, high-explosive incendiary 30mm rounds and the 500 pound GBU-12 Paveway II laser-guided bomb. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Ryan Callaghan) Weapons Airmen enable joint training
Weapons troops from the 74th Aircraft Maintenance Unit enabled joint force training during Green Flag-West 17-03, Jan. 13-27 at Nellis Air Force Base, Nev.GFW, an air-land combat integration exercise, provided these Airmen with a rare opportunity to put their home station training to use by allowing them to load live munitions
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Senior Airman Cameron Kidd, 325th Maintenance Squadron, Tyndall Air Force Base, Fla., readies equipment for loading GPS data into GBU-32 bomb tail sections Aug. 2 at Hill AFB, Utah. The bombs will be dropped at the Utah Test and Training Range during the air-to-ground exercise known as Combat Hammer. Combat Hammer tests precision weapons for performance and suitability for combat. (U.S. Air Force photo by Paul Holcomb) Munitions Airmen: Key players during combat exercises at Hill AFB
Aircraft from several bases around the Air Force are here through August 18 to drop precision-guided munitions and employ air-to-air missiles on the Utah Test and Training Range during exercises known as Combat Hammer and Combat Archer.
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2016
The 432nd Maintenance Squadron’s munitions flight performs maintenance on six inert GBU-12 Paveway II laser-guided bombs April 27, 2016, at Creech Air Force Base, Nevada. Col. Case Cunningham, 432nd Wing/432nd Air Expeditionary Wing commander, and Chief Master Sgt. Michael Ditore, 432nd Wg/432nd AEW command chief, assisted in the build to connect with munitions Airmen and learn various parts of their jobs, as well as their contributions to the MQ-1 and MQ-9 mission. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Kristan Campbell/Released). Bomb building: Creech leadership shadows Ammo Airmen
Col. Case Cunningham, 432nd Wing/432nd Air Expeditionary Wing commander, joined Chief Master Sgt. Michael Ditore, 432nd Wg/432nd AEW command chief, for Ditore’s shadow an Airman initiative with the Airmen of the 432nd Maintenance Squadron’s munitions flight April 27, 2016, at Creech Air Force Base, Nevada.
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2016
Senior Airman Thiago Gandarillas, 99th Logistics Readiness Squadron acting NCO in charge of planning and packaging, fills out a form while preparing a package for shipment at Nellis Air Force Base, Nev., on April 18, 2016. With over 40 percent of traffic management personnel deployed at all times, this team thrived through expert training and cross-utilization of talents to help with mission support, readiness and made significant and lasting contributions to the Nellis AFB, Creech AFB and Nevada Test and Training Range team as well as to the U.S. Air Force Warfare Center mission. (Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Nathan Byrnes) 99th LRS Cargo Movement wins Air Force-level award
Andrew Carnegie once stated, “Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.”
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2016
Tech Sgt. Kasey Hollinger, 432nd Maintenance Squadron aerospace ground equipment craftsman, poses next to self generating nitrogen cart May 19, 2015 at Creech Air Force Base, Nevada. The self-generating nitrogen cart is used to separate nitrogen from the oxygen in the air and compresses it to be used to inflate age equipment and aircraft tires. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Adarius Petty/Released) Piecing the puzzle together, RPAs provide crucial CAP capabilities: Pre-flight maintenance
With a mission fully planned, remotely piloted aircraft (RPA) and ground control stations (GCS) must be in complete working order to ensure the aircrew has an operational RPA to get the mission done successfully and safely. To accomplish this task, Airmen from more than 19 Air Force Specialty Codes (AFSCs) work together to manage the safety of the aircraft by ensuring its weapons are correctly built and loaded, the GCSs are operational, the data links are active, and the equipment needed to maintain the aircraft are operational to ensure remotely piloted aircraft operations can be conducted worldwide.
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