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18th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron

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 ...
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