10/20/2023 0 Comments 15t mos duty stationsMy favorite duty station so far has been fort bliss tx. Negatives are that there are days where you’ll be working past 1700, Apaches are maintenance heavy (this one could be positive or negative depending on how you look at it), and it’s a relaxed environment, also could be a positive based on perception and structure. Positives are that you’re learning a marketable skill, aviation is a small community, and you get to work on an airfield. I can tell you that coming as a SPC reclass, you will be getting looked at by your leadership for those leadership skills, your understanding of the structure for your unit, and your work ethic along with other things. Overall, I had a pretty darn good time as a SPC in this MOS. After that I became a crew chief in a line company where I had an aircraft assigned to me. If you have any questions any time don’t hesitate to ask!Īs a SPC I was working in a support battalion performing major maintenance for the first three years, then got moved to an Apache battalion. I’ll soon be stationed here in Germany and am excited for that experience. I’m a role with the punches kind of person so I believe every duty station is what you make it. Some leadership will tell you not to judge aviation based on hood, most people just don’t like the installation. I’ve only been stationed at hood and that’s where I enlisted so I don’t mind it at all. I honestly am not the best person to ask about cons because I absolutely love my job and have no desire to reclass. Needing parts and having qc tell you to replace something that isn’t broken just to make it look like you’re working on the problem. Most cons you will hear is maintenance flow, sometimes it will seem like you’ve got nothing going on then all of a sudden it’s as if everything is broken. My personal cons, maintenance takes precedence over pt, and we work 12-14 hour days most times so pt on your own time takes discipline. Boards are what you make it, that always depend on your willingness to study. Promotion points are actually the highest, right now sitting at 798. It’s hard work but that feeling you get when you clear the engines and the pilots spin those blades directly over your head and you launch them, it’s one of a kind. I launch it, recover it, know it’s entire scheduled maintenance timeline and over time you learn the birds sweet spots and bad habits. For line companies the hours are long and frustrated working with PC, QC and lack of parts but personally I prefer it over anything else because I have my bird. ASB if for major phases (500 hour) this is when the entire bird gets taken apart and put back together. Maintenance company is there for the big unschedule stuff that happens, engine replacements, lower hour phases and the like. In a line company you are directly responsible for the every day schedule maintenance of the bird, each crew cheif generally has their own to maintain but everyone kind of rotates. There are three types of Romeos, maintenance company, line company and ASB. Drum has gone every other year where as my unit hasn’t been in three years and we’re now on a rotation in Europe. Deployments ( and rotations) depend on the station just like any other unit, 9 months long and every other year or so. Duty stations are slim compared to most other MOS’S but it’s spread out Germany, Alaska, Hawaii, Ny, Georgia, Kentucky, Washington, Kansas, Korea, Texas and I may have missed another.
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