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  • Senior Airman Rook Laird, 57th Maintenance Group Tomahawk Aircraft Maintenance Unit F-16 Fighting Falcon weapons load crew member, ensures a munition is secured during a weapons load certification.

    57th MXG Load Barn: Safety, standards, certification

    Even in the midst of a pandemic, weapons loading crews from the 57th Maintenance Group must earn and maintain proficiency because they are essential to the Air Force’s combat and training missions. To do that, they must certify under the watchful eyes of the Weapons Standardization shop, otherwise known as the “load barn.”“Any time new weapons
  • An Airman cleans the canopy of an F-35A Lighting II fighter jet.

    Bolt AMU: bringing the future faster

    It all begins on the walls of a stereotypical conference room cluttered with large drawn out diagrams, procedures and step-by-step directions of how Bolt Aircraft Maintenance Unit (AMU) gets their fleet of F-35A Lightning IIs mission-ready on a daily basis. Maintenance personnel and civilians are dispersed throughout the room brainstorming how to streamline maintenance procedures.
  • An Airman look at a navigation light.

    AFREP saves Nellis $3.6M

    Searching through a pile of unserviceable components waiting their inevitable fate, expert Airmen rescue multiple high-value items to repair at no cost to the Air Force.
  • Airmen assigned to the 389th Aircraft Maintenance Unit, Mountain Home Air Force Base, Idaho, perform final checks on an F-15 Eagle fighter jet during a load crew competition at Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada, April 13, 2018. Each team consisted of three members who played a specific role in the competition to increase their team's success by working as one cohesive unit.(U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Andrew D. Sarver)

    Weapons loaders compete in quarterly load crew competition

    Airmen from the 57th Maintenance Group and 389th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron out of Mountain Home Air Force Base, Idaho, competed in a quarterly load crew competition April 13 at Nellis Air Force Base, Nev.
  • An Airman from the 57th Maintenance Group prepares a missile assembly on an F-16 Fighting Falcon, assigned to the 16th Weapons Squadron, during a load crew competition Oct. 6, 2017, at Nellis Air Force Base, Nev. Multiple squadrons participated in the competition which tested their speed and accuracy when loading munitions onto an aircraft. (U.S. photo by Airman 1st Class Andrew D. Sarver/Released)

    57th MXG hosts 3rd quarter load crew competition

    Multiple squadrons from the 57th Maintenance Group participated in a load crew competition Oct. 6 at Nellis Air Force Base, Nev.
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