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Monday, June 2, 2008

Maintainers to Rejoin Flying Squadrons

From the Air Force Times: Beginning in July, the Air Force will undergo a massive reorganization, and tens of thousands of airmen will move to new squadrons, answer to new commanders and, if they’re officers and senior enlisted airmen, take on new responsibilities. Crew chiefs, flightline maintainers and weapons loaders for fighter, bomber and combat search-and-rescue wings will move from maintenance squadrons to operations squadrons, coming under the command of pilots. Their maintenance groups will be dissolved, and a new organization — materiel groups — will absorb thousands more airmen.
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