Base bosses build bombs with Airmen

Airman First Class Tyler Anderson, 379th Expeditionary Maintenance Squadron Munitions Flight conventional maintenance crew member, teaches Chief Master Sgt. Thomas Good, 379th Air Expeditionary Wing command chief, about the fuze unit-63 initiator for a guided bomb unit May 10, 2016, at Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar. An FZU-63 initiates the explosive train from the GBU once it is released from the aircraft. (U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman Janelle Patiño/Released)

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Base bosses build bombs with Airmen

Members of the 379th Expeditionary Maintenance Squadron Munitions Flight teach Col. Samuel White, 379th Air Expeditionary Wing vice commander, and Chief Master Sgt. Thomas Good, 379th AEW command chief, how to build a bomb May 10, 2016, at Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar. White and Good visited the flight to not only learn how to build a bomb, but to also meet and speak directly with the deployed Airmen. (U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman Janelle Patiño/Released)

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Base bosses build bombs with Airmen

Col. Samuel White, 379th Air Expeditionary Wing vice commander, prepares the suspension lug sleeves on a guided bomb unit May 10, 2016, at Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar. Members of the 379th Expeditionary Maintenance Squadron Munitions Flight showed White and Chief Master Sgt. Thomas Good, 379th AEW command chief, what they do on a daily basis, such as building bombs that are used throughout the theater in the fight against Daesh. (U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman Janelle Patiño/Released)

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Base bosses build bombs with Airmen

Chief Master Sgt. Thomas Good, 379th Air Expeditionary Wing command chief, uses a speed handle to tighten the aero-surface strake assembly on a guided bomb unit May 10, 2016, at Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar. Col. Samuel White, 379th AEW vice commander, and Good paid the 379th Expeditionary Maintenance Squadron Munitions Flight a visit to speak with Airmen directly and learn first-hand how the Airmen directly support precision air strikes throughout the region. (U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman Janelle Patiño/Released)

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Base bosses build bombs with Airmen

Staff Sgt. Kevin Merkel, 379th Expeditionary Maintenance Squadron Munitions Flight conventional munition maintenance shift lead, teaches Col. Samuel White, 379th Air Expeditionary Wing vice commander, about fuze positioning in the tail of a guided bomb unit May 10, 2016, at Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar. In addition to building bombs, Merkel also leads 21 Airmen while coordinating the munitions storage plan, inspection, assembly, flight line deliveries and host nation customs relations. (U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman Janelle Patiño/Released)

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Base bosses build bombs with Airmen

Published May 17, 2016
By Senior Airman Janelle Patiño
379th Air Expeditionary Wing Public Affairs

AL UDEID AIR BASE, Qatar -- Airman First Class Tyler Anderson, 379th Expeditionary Maintenance Squadron Munitions Flight conventional maintenance crew member, teaches Chief Master Sgt. Thomas Good, 379th Air Expeditionary Wing command chief, about the fuze unit-63 initiator for a guided bomb unit May 10, 2016, at Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar. An FZU-63 initiates the explosive train from the GBU once it is released from the aircraft. (U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman Janelle Patiño/Released)