Quick Turnaround: How a Kadena Maintenance Group Radically Increased Sortie Production April 23, 2021 | By Jennifer Hlad In the summer of 2019, the 18th Maintenance Group at Kadena Air Base, Japan, was struggling to produce just a light day of sorties. Just 16 months later, the unit pulled off a “super surge,” putting up 436 sorties in three and a half days—the ...