Photo by Airman 1st Class Josephine Pepin | 28th Bomb Wing | 03.12.2023
U.S. Air Force Airman 1st Class Zachary Bottoms, 28th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron defensive avionics specialist, performs a receive check on a B-1B Lancer during Red Flag 23-2 at Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada, March 13, 2023. The 414th Combat Training Squadron conducts Red Flag exercises to provide aircrews the experience of multiple, intensive air combat sorties in the safety of a training......
Photo by Airman 1st Class Christina Bennett | 28th Bomb Wing | 01.07.2019
The load crew team from the 28th Munitions Squadron inspect their work after loading two inert GBU-38 Joint Direct Attack Munitions and one inert AGM-158 Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile onto a simulated B-1 bomber during the annual weapons load competition at Ellsworth Air Force Base, S.D., Jan. 7, 2019. The winning team of the annual competition is announced at the Maintenance......
Photo by Airman 1st Class Christina Bennett | 28th Bomb Wing | 01.07.2019
Senior Airman Andrea Walls, a 28th Munitions Squadron load crew member, loads an inert AGM-158 Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile onto a simulated B-1 bomber at the annual weapons load competition at Ellsworth Air Force Base, S.D., Jan. 7, 2019. The JASSM weighs 2,250 pounds and must be lifted approximately 17 feet in the air to be inserted into the bomb bay of the simulated B-1. (U.S. Air......
Photo by Airman 1st Class Christina Bennett | 28th Bomb Wing | 01.07.2019
Judges for the annual weapons load competition watch as the 28th Munitions Squadron load crew install a second GBU-38 Joint Direct Attack Munition onto a simulated B-1 bomber at Ellsworth Air Force Base, S.D., Jan. 7, 2019. Participants competed to be recognized as the 28th Maintenance Group’s best load crew for 2018. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Christina Bennett)...
Photo by Airman 1st Class Christina Bennett | 28th Bomb Wing | 01.07.2019
Load crew members from the 28th Munitions Squadron use a munitions lift truck or ‘jammer’, to load an inert AGM-158 Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile into a simulated B-1 bomber at the annual weapons load competition at Ellsworth Air Force Base, S.D., Jan. 7, 2019. Each team was required to complete the loading process within 40 minutes and were also graded on proficiency, technique......
Photo by Airman 1st Class Christina Bennett | 28th Bomb Wing | 01.07.2019
A load crew member participating in the annual weapons load competition inspects a bomb rack prior to loading a munition onto a simulated B-1 bomber at Ellsworth Air Force Base, S.D., Jan. 7, 2019. A small cartridge is installed onto the rack that will release the bomb from the aircraft, so the rack must be inspected as well as the munition. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Christina......
Photo by Airman 1st Class Christina Bennett | 28th Bomb Wing | 01.07.2019
Weapon loaders from the 28th Munitions Squadron, the 34th Aircraft Maintenance Unit and the 37th Aircraft Maintenance Unit compete in an annual weapons loading competition at Ellsworth Air Force Base, S.D., Jan. 7, 2019. Each team was given 40 minutes to load two inert GBU-38 Joint Direct Attack Munitions and one inert AGM-158 Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile onto a simulated B-1 bomber.......
Photo by Airman 1st Class Christina Bennett | 28th Bomb Wing | 01.07.2019
Load crew members from the 34th Aircraft Maintenance Unit use a munition truck or ‘jammer’, to load an inert AGM-158 Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile into a simulated B-1 Bomber at the annual weapons load competition at Ellsworth Air Force Base, S.D., Jan.7, 2019. Squadron leadership selected weapons loaders to represent each unit as the best load crew of 2018. (U.S. Air Force photo......
