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Originally Posted by VacantSky
Sounds about right, it's like musical chairs figuring out who does what maintenance wise sometimes here, it's a headache. Our back shop (crew chief) is still dedicated to 130's specifically. Although the wheel and tire we do as a side job we cover all aircraft on base, and our crash recovery extends to every and any airframe - even a local jurisdiction to help with civilian aircraft. If we had another airframe that required AR here the personnel would probably share a shop with us, but only work on their airframe.
I like meeting other services maintainers and sharing complaints about all the things we do wrong, and wishing we had some of eachothers structure. I worked with a Marine (I would say prior but once a Marine always a Marine), she was a lockheed contractor here and she'd tell us about how stupid some of the things we have to do are. And then tell us how awesome we had it for other stuff.
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That's pretty much every job in every branch. Pros n cons to each, none of them have it quite figured out haha. FWIW, Marines operate the same as the Navy in regards to aviation (same pubs - T.O.s for you guys). In fact, most of our "back shops" (intermediate maintenance) are joint commands with Navy and Marines.
My last command was Navy and Marines maintenance with Navy, Air Force, and civilian supply.. what a cluster fuck that was!
We deal with crash recovery as well, we call it emergency reclamation. Although the overall program is ran by airframers (my shop), it is essentially an all-hands effort. If something happens, each shop has specific procedures for recovery and/or destruction of various equipment.