Courtesy Story | 82nd Training Wing | 03.09.2022
In this edition of Sheppard in Photos, we take a look at a 362nd Training Squadron A-10 Thunderbolt II crew chief apprentice course class in block 6 of training, where they learn how to service and maintain the main landing gear shock strut of the ground attack aircraft....
Story by John Ingle | 82nd Training Wing | 01.26.2022
The 362nd Training Squadron here, home to all of the service’s crew chief technical training, is leveraging today’s technology to provide a near-real experience in a virtual world as Airmen learn their trade. Technical Training Transformation, or T3, introduces a learning platform that is familiar to today’s generation of aircraft maintainers who grew up with technology in their hands at......
Story by Senior Airman Sarah Dowe | Joint Base Langley-Eustis | 07.16.2021
Air Force maintainers at JBLE are commonly associated with F-22 Raptors and other jets. It may come as a surprise to know some Airmen also learn how to maintain helicopters while training at JBLE....
Story by Airman 1st Class Monica Roybal | Joint Base Langley-Eustis | 07.17.2019
A combination of patterned uniforms cut through the humid air as they climb about the frames and rotors lined up in one of the many hangars that make up the 128th Aviation Brigade. The constant drone of industrial fans fills the room while service members buzz around the floor, notebooks in hand and on their way to become masters of their airframe....
Story by Airman 1st Class Madeleine Jinks | 82nd Training Wing | 03.18.2019
Nine blocks. Eighty training days. Six hundred forty hours of hard work and concentration. This is what it takes to become an Air Force crew chief apprentice....
Story by John Ingle | 82nd Training Wing | 11.07.2018
362nd Training Squadron crew chief apprentice course students at Sheppard Air Force Base have a newer, updated MC-130P Combat Shadow to use as a ground instructional training aircraft that brings some important, advanced technology to the training arena....
