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Senior Airman Adam Amosa, 56th Component Maintenance Squadron hydraulics journeyman, disassembles an A-10 Thunderbolt landing gear brake at Luke Air Force Base, Ariz. August 8, 2017. The break pad was disassembled to inspect and determine if the piece was serviceable. (U.S. Air Force photo/Airman 1st Class Pedro Mota)

Aug. 14, 2017

Luke’s hydraulics shop adds to the Air Force stockpile

LUKE AIR FORCE BASE, ARIZ. — Logistics In Action: Article originally appeared on the Luke Air Force base website — Airmen from the 56th Component Maintenance Squadron work together with squadrons across the base to maintain the hydraulics systems for various aircraft systems.

Richard Ristow works on a vertical milling machine to design parts for a special stand to be used to support the Cougar variant of the MRAP so that mechanics can safely work on it, Aug. 2. Ristow has 35 years of experience as a machinist, a large part of that at Production Plant Barstow, Marine Depot Maintenance Command, aboard the Yermo Annex of Marine Corps Logistics Base Barstow, Calif.

Aug. 11, 2017

Machinists create items from scratch at PPB

MARINE CORPS LOGISTICS BASE BARSTOW, Calif. — Logistics In Action: Article originally appeared on the Marine Corps Logistics Base Barstow website — The artisans in the Production Plant Barstow Machine Shop can take a raw piece of material and turn it in to a finished product for any vehicle or project currently being worked on at the facility.

A Buck Company employee stirring molten metal to pull out impurities.

July 1, 2017

Anvils and Aircraft

DLA Aviation employees learned firsthand how two companies make aircraft parts for DLA through casting and forging.

Senior Airman Nick Monroe, 92nd Maintenance Squadron periodic inspection support section journeyman, conducts daily bench stock program duties Jan. 20, 2017, at Fairchild Air Force Base, Wash. With thousands of individual fasteners in hundreds of variations, the process of updating bench stock inventory could take eight hours and since receiving the RoboCrib, the process has been reduced to less than 30 minutes. (U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman Mackenzie Richardson)

Jan. 27, 2017

Chips. Candy bars. Nuts and bolts?

FAIRCHILD AIR FORCE BASE, Wash. — Logistics In Action: Article originally appeared on the Fairchild Air Force Base website — In November 2016, the 92nd Maintenance Squadron became one of the first squadrons Air Force wide to receive an inventory vending machine for the periodic-inspection support section.

U.S. Air Force Airman 1st Class Eric Chung, left, a crew chief, and Staff Sgt. Esteban Ramirez, right, an engines technician, both with the 14th Aircraft Maintenance Unit, perform maintenance underneath an F-16 Fighting Falcon at Misawa Air Base, Japan, Dec. 12, 2016. Several shops from the 35th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron work with each other to perform their specialized craft on the aircraft. Airmen performed maintenance through engine panels in an F-16, allowing personnel to troubleshoot an engine without removing it.

Dec. 19, 2016

Crew Chiefs Secure Airpower, Presence

MISAWA AIR BASE, Japan — Logistics In Action: Article originally appeared on the Misawa Air Base website — Dedicated crew chiefs with the 35th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron play a role in sustaining the 35th Fighter Wing’s investments to project airpower and meet its security commitments in the Pacific region by ensuring jets are fully mission capable.

Sailors stand by while an F/A-18 Hornet launches from the flight deck of Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69) Nov. 25, 2012. Defense Logistics Agency Aviation in Philadelphia has stood up a tactical tiger team to ensure the F/A-18 continues supporting the needs of the fleet.

March 14, 2016

DLA Aviation keeps F/A-18 jets soaring

RICHMOND, Virginia — F/A-18 Hornet fighter jets, flown by Navy and Marine Corps pilots, have patrolled U.S. and international airspace for more than 30 years — and will likely keep flying well into the future, with the help of a special DLA Aviation team.

John Danko, owner of Danko Arlington Foundry, displays a casting pattern developed with additive manufacturing processes to Defense Logistics Agency Aviation employees visiting his family’s foundry during DLA Aviation’s Forging and Casting Assistance Team’s September 2015 “Introduction to Metal Casting and Forging” Technology Transfer Seminar. (DLA Aviation Courtesy Photo)

Jan. 19, 2016

DLA forging and casting investment continues to provide returns 25 years later

In the early 1990s, Defense Logistics Agency recognized the need to invest in future technology; the agency saw that some once-robust domestic supply chains were disappearing, fragmenting or going overseas. Now, 25-plus years later, the agency’s forging and casting initiative is yielding benefits from knowledge shared by industry, the military services and DLA Aviation.