The 36th Expeditionary Aircraft Maintenance Squadron deployed to Andersen AFB, Guam, from Minot AFB, N.D., has just set a record for launching its 200th consecutive sortie with a 100 percent mission effectiveness rate for their venerable B-52 bombers. Basically over the course of a five-month deployment, MSgt Frantz Juan-Pierre, a unit section chief, says the unit’s maintainers “caught a couple of breaks” and found “there was nothing we couldn’t fix.”
As the Space Force prepares to field new fleets of satellites that can track moving targets in the air and on the ground, it’s working to ensure it has the organizational structures in place to onboard and operate those systems.
