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  • Weapons Airmen remove pylon for routine inspection

    Airmen from the 44th Expeditionary Aircraft Maintenance Unit weapons section, remove a pylon from an F-15 Eagle aircraft for a scheduled inspection at Prince Sultan Air Base, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Aug. 11, 2020.

  • Combat metals: 'The Modern Day Blacksmiths'

    While there are a lot of precautionary measures in place to prevent bird strikes and other aircraft incidents, they are not one-hundred percent preventable. When these incidents occur, there’s a small group of Airmen who are called upon to do patchwork to get the aircraft back to base, and to fix