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  • Ground equipment maintainers support flightline missions

    Airmen assigned to the 36th Maintenance Squadron Aerospace Ground Equipment Flight are responsible for a variety of essential equipment that helps keep the B-52 Stratofortress and other aircraft here operational.From bomb-loading lifts and munitions trailers to generators that provide aircraft and

  • Blast from the past: 20th EBS drops last M117 bomb in PACAF

    Airmen from the 20th Expeditionary Bomb Squadron, with the help of 36th Munitions Squadron Airmen, dropped the final M117 bomb in the Pacific Air Force's inventory June 26 on an uninhabited island off the coast of Guam.The M117 bomb dates back to the mid-1950s when it was first used during the

  • Accuracy no difficult task for PMEL experts

    Attention to detail and accuracy is vital for the technicians who work in the 36th Maintenance Squadron Precision Measurement Equipment Laboratory, ensuring all the equipment they calibrate on a daily basis is reliable for the many units they support.The PMEL shop is responsible for the maintenance

  • Non-destructive inspection cracks down

    Non-destructive inspection Airmen provide support to the structural maintenance program, which ensures air and space equipment are safe, serviceable and in mission-ready condition.

  • 36th MUNS home to largest munition stockpile

    Deep into the jungle, surrounded by brown tree snakes and wild boar, are a number of unassuming grass-covered munitions igloos filled with small-arms ammunition and conventional warheads ready to take the fight to the enemy. The 36th Munitions Squadron is home to the largest munitions stockpile in

  • Cryogenics super cooling services serves Andersen mission

    The 36th Logistics Readiness Squadron's cryogenics flight plays a unique role in facilitating Pacific airpower.Being one of only two Air Force production centers worldwide the 36 LRS is able to generate, store and distribute liquid oxygen and nitrogen. Other AF labs have facilities to store their

  • We can do it: Women of maintenance

    Picture someone under the glare of the burning sun on the flightline for up to 12 hours, a patchwork of grease stains covering their coveralls as they climb into the thick underbelly of a B-52 Stratofortress, tools and knowledge in hand, in an attempt to fix whatever issue has gone south inside of