Story by Senior Airman Jose Miguel Tamondong | 354th Fighter Wing | 12.15.2022
Lockheed Martin provides bases with F-35A Lightning II standard trailers used to transport its canopies. However, in an arctic environment like Eielson, getting the trailer wheels stuck in snow is one of the many unique difficulties the 354th Maintenance Squadron Airmen face almost six months every year....
Story by Airman 1st Class Rebecca Sirimarco-Lang | 4th Fighter Wing | 11.08.2022
Airmen assigned to the 4th Component Maintenance Squadron egress section are responsible for maintaining all necessary exit equipment on the F-15E Strike Eagle. Although the need to eject is rare, pilots must be able to trust the capabilities of egress Airmen....
Story by Brian Valencia | 502nd Air Base Wing | 08.19.2022
Firefighters from the 902nd Civil Engineer Squadron at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland conducted an emergency response egress exercise Aug. 19, 2022, testing their abilities from the initial call and response, to arriving on scene and rescuing the pilot....
Story by Senior Airman Brooke Keisler | 31st Fighter Wing | 08.16.2022
AVIANO AIR BASE, Italy -- Imagine sitting comfortably in your car when suddenly a severe mechanical failure occurs and the safest course of action is to launch yourself into the air by nothing more than your driver’s seat. It may sound like a crazy thing to do, but for aircraft pilots this can be a very real situation. The 31st Maintenance Squadron Egress specialists ensure the safety of......
Story by Airman 1st Class Ricardo Azucena-Sandoval | 354th Fighter Wing | 07.28.2022
The Airmen assigned to the 354th Maintenance Squadron Aircrew Egress Systems section carry the responsibility of ensuring a pilot’s safe ejection in the event of an air emergency through precision, teamwork, and leadership....
Story by Airman 1st Class Brooke Keisler | 56th Fighter Wing | 06.15.2020
LUKE AIR FORCE BASE, Ariz. – As a last-resort to escape a catastrophic emergency, pilots trust an aircraft’s ejection system to carry them safely from danger. While the equipment does the physical work, pilots’ lives are in the hands of maintenance Airmen....
Story by Airman Luis Ruiz-Vazquez | 9th Reconnaissance Wing | 01.14.2020
When a plane goes down, an ejection seat keeps pilots from going down with it. Ejecting from an ejection seat is not something a pilot wants to do, but it is something they have to do in case of an emergency where everything else in an aircraft fails. It is their last chance at survival, and their lives rest on the hands of aircrew egress system specialists....
Story by Spc. Noelle Wiehe | 50th Public Affairs Detachment | 12.05.2019
Marne Soldiers went through the High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle Egress Assistance Trainer instructor, operator course Dec. 5-6 at the Virtual Training Center at Fort Stewart, Georgia, in preparation for their upcoming convoy live-fire exercises to be conducted during this year’s Legion Focus exercise....
