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Show 'OT rf 'WIT HILL TOP TIMES July 30, Pagef Coinni nm u'ni.coAibini "I make sure information is passed on and The Component Repair Squadron starts that everyone is responding. It can get confusing if we : don't constantly check and recheck on the thousand and one details that go into an air operation of this size and palletizing equipment sent from the mobilizing unit or units. It's usually a group of young airmen under the watchful eye of an experienced NCO, such as MSgt. Ernie v mu'"""' )LiiMiiuui.ww..iMMiL.ii,liiMiiIJiil.ii.iilli.it,.ii V Brown, 388th CRS. complexity. A This process is made somewhat easier by . ; "If you watch a load closely, you can tell the massive mobilization augmentee trainbefore it gets too far that it will or won't n trainundertaken a be right," said Sergeant Brown. He estimates ing program by that it takes someone a "good" six exercises ing team under Colonel Marberry's supervision. In calendar year 1981, they trained before they get proficient at palletizing. more than 3,000 people in all aspects of These pallets must pass an by the . n This is in same team AFLC before 388th and mobility. they're inspectors charge of real world deployments and allowed into the marshalling area to meet the load availability time. redeployments at Hill. The bottom line for Colonel Marberry and Meanwhile, passengers are waiting to be indeed everyone involved in mobility is maktaken to the aircraft. load the load and "It's during that void when you're compleing availability Not these times. is times the watching TV and wondering if anybody is tion meeting same as an aircraft not leaving on time' in going to take you to the airport that that "f a real deployment. last bit of 'marrying up' between passengers I "We're dependent on everybody else and cargo is going on," said Major Luke. This can be a crucial time for the load irig their job and doing it well," said Colonel Marberry. "If they don't, we're really planners, especially if delays have caused L n built-iin a bind because we don't have any major cargo changes. If they don't plan the slack times. We have to meet the load load right, the plane won't fly. But, more completion time." importantly, a unit could arrive at its comwhole The bat location without critical personnel or process of interdependence starts very early in the maintenance units equipment. of the 388th. . Finally, after the efforts of literally hun, After a recall, everyone comes in and is . dreds of workers and thousands of processshifty depending on ing personnel, the cargo and passengers" assigned to a or whether or not their unit is "marry up" at the C-and their job ' ' designated for their load. being mobilized. Was it worth it? It was to SrA. Timothy Maintenance The Equipment Squadron" : has the largest and most critical immediate Friedrichs, 388th EMS, who worked 12 hundreds task in the 388th hours last week in 90 degree weather tying marshalling of pieces of support equipment. Unit perdown equipment. oxsonnel start washing generators, liquid "One of these days, it's going to come 388th ygen tanks, air conditioning units and many down to the wire and people will need to others and defueling them in preparation know where to go and what to do. We'll be ' for air shipment. ready." f i..r ""It ; ' m - five-ma- ih-che- ck five-ma- -- T',-;- II V -J ' c5 ... 1 V -- r i; ' 1 . A er ... . - , . 12-ho- ur 5, C-1- 30 C-1- 41 , I j Equipment Maintenance Squadron airmen tie down equipment hoses. (U. S. A ir Force Photos by George Whefton) V - I W 4 " - I V... gr<llW'WWWWMMMl. I - - S s i ' - " m i" ' i - ' ' - - I ' ' - t,j i - JkimmM'nimmrmmitmmmmmmrmimmimmmmmi''mm'" j " - ' . . 388th Component Repair Squadron personnel . ladders onto pallets place 6 F-1- . . - IllllllllllllSf1ft A mobility im in nr r i I'ltT". rm inn r -- : ' ' f I 12- -- --i iriniifiipiiiiiii"i":'Miiii augmentee driver loads pallets ready for mobilization. ; ';4 ;:.;v: |