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U.S. Air Force Airman 1st Class Luis Gonzalez, 20th Logistics Readiness Squadron (LRS) material management aircraft parts store (APS) apprentice, left, and Staff Sgt. Johnson Kabubei, 20th LRS material management APS noncommissioned officer in charge, prepare aircraft parts for distribution at Shaw Air Force Base (AFB), S.C., Jan. 10, 2018.

Jan. 17, 2018

SHAW AIR FORCE BASE, S.C. — Logistics In Action: Article originally appeared on the Shaw Air Force Base website — In order to ensure Team Shaw’s F-16CM Fighting Falcons are ready to accomplish the mission, Airmen assigned to 20th Logistics Readiness Squadron aircraft parts store verify each aircraft has every part needed.

Jan. 15, 2018

Pushing Cargo: 386th LRS, special handle

SOUTHWEST ASIA — Logistics In Action: Article originally appeared on the 386th Air Expeditionary Wing website — The importance of this mission is equivalently clear for the men and women who serve the 386th Expeditionary Logistics Readiness Squadron.

The 802nd performs material/engineering tests, chemical testing and calibration services for Warner Robins Air Logistics Complex, the Air Force and Department of Defense customers.

Jan. 11, 2018

ER for the Air Force

ROBINS AIR FORCE BASE, Ga. — Logistics In Action: Article originally appeared on the Robins Air Force Base website — The Lab Production Flight in the 402nd Maintenance Support Group’s 802nd Maintenance Support Squadron performs material/engineering tests, chemical testing and calibration services. It not only handles cases for WR-ALC, the Air Force and Department of Defense customers, but it also contracts with any organization, public or private, that needs the flight’s highly-regarded, problem-solving expertise.

Filled liquid oxygen carts are ready for pick-up at the 673d Logistics Readiness Squadron fuels facilities section at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, Dec. 4, 2017. Oxygen is pressurized and cooled into a liquid state in order to transport it more efficiently from cryogenic tanks to JBER’s aircraft to provide fresh air to pilots in flight.

Jan. 10, 2018

LOX and load: Fuels Airmen breathe life into aviation

JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska — Logistics In Action: Article originally appeared on the Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson website — As a C-17 Globemaster III gains altitude, air pressure decreases, reducing the amount of oxygen in a pilot’s blood. If unprepared, permanent damage to vital organs can happen within minutes. To prevent this, aircrew rely upon liquid oxygen.

Jan. 8, 2018

USACE Quality Assurance checks help keep temporary emergency generators running strong in Puerto Rico

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Logistics In Action: Article originally appeared on the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers website — Shelby Deal leans over a generator hooked up to a water pump station on the side of a twisting mountain road in central Puerto Rico. He notes the generator’s barcode and transponder number, inspects its oil and fuel filters, checks the fuel gauge, and records the number of hours the generator has operated.

The process that the 386th Expeditionary Logistics Readiness Squadron goes through to send MRAP vehicles throughout the area of responsibility is designed to ensure the vehicle makes its destination and operates properly when it gets there.

Jan. 5, 2018

Delivering MRAPs safely downrange

SOUTHWEST ASIA — Logistics In Action: Article originally appeared on the 386th Air Expeditionary Wing website — The process that the 386th Expeditionary Logistics Readiness Squadron goes through to send MRAP vehicles throughout the area of responsibility is designed to ensure the vehicle makes its destination and operates properly when it gets there.

Master Sgt. David Clark, an aircrew flight equipment journeyman with the Kentucky Air Guard’s 123rd Operations Support Squadron in Louisville, Ky., performs routine inspection and maintenance of pilot headgear to ensure its integrity June 9, 2017. Every helmet and attachments are carefully cleaned, repaired, and tested by members of the aircrew flight equipment shop.

Dec. 31, 2017

Aircrew flight equipment team provides essential safety for flyers

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Logistics In Action: Article originally appeared on the 123rd Airlift Wing website — From the bottom of the pack to the top of the canopy, line by line, inch by inch, touching every seem, stitch and grommet, Tech. Sgt. Christopher Brawner, painstakingly examines a parachute for anything that might make the life-saving equipment not function properly.

U.S. FIFTH FLEET AREA OF OPERATIONS (Dec. 22, 2017) – Marines and Sailors with USS San Diego and embarked 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit pass boxes during a replenishment at sea. San Diego, with the embarked 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit, is deployed to the U.S. 5th Fleet area of operations in support of maritime security operations to reassure allies and partners and preserve the freedom of navigation and the free flow of commerce in the region.

Dec. 26, 2017

Replenishment at sea aboard USS San Diego

U.S. 5TH FLEET AREA OF OPERATIONS — Logistics In Action: Article originally appeared on the Marines website — The line that Marines and Sailors of the USS San Diego and embarked 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit had formed to begin resupplying the ship during a replenishment at sea, Dec. 22, 2017.

Camp Sparta is a secure and isolated compound where joint service logisticians from across all branches of service and support disciplines are attached to United States Special Operations Command Central’s Joint Special Operations Forces Support Detachment – K. The compound serves as a trans-regional, intermediate-level staging base and logistics hub for special operations personnel and cargo coming in and out of theater. The JSSD-K mission has been around since 2012, but in December 2016, a U.S. Central Command execution order solidified and expanded its mission.

Dec. 25, 2017

Air Force contributes to joint special operations mission

SOUTHWEST ASIA (AFNS) — Logistics In Action: Article originally appeared on the Air Force website — The original Sparta was a warrior society in ancient Greece and Spartan culture was centered on loyalty to military service. Located at the 386th Air Expeditionary Wing in Southwest Asia, such a place still exists.

Dec. 21, 2017

Heavy shop Airmen help maintain airfield integrity

EIELSON AIR FORCE BASE, Alaska — Logistics In Action: Article originally appeared on the Eielson Air Force Base website — When thinking about flight line operations and how to keep a resilient airfield, most people think about the snow equipment clearing the flight line, the maintainers aiding each aircraft in taking-off or the pilots flying the aircraft.

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