Maintainers in the Trenches
AE3 Stephen Bell, assigned to the “Kestrels� of VFA-137, performs maintenance on the engine bay of an FA-18E Super Hornet aboard the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72). Navy photo by MC3 Rialyn Rodrigo
Gunnery Sgt. Pablo Dominguez, left, and Cpl. Zach Versteegh, both assigned to HMM-265, perform maintenance checks on a CH-46 Sea Knight helicopter in the hangar bay of the forward-deployed amphibious assault ship USS Essex (LHD-2). Navy photo by MC3 Gabriel Weber
Summer 2008
ADAN Zechariah Edwards and AD3 Daniel Childress perform maintenance on the engine of a P-3C Orion aircraft. Navy photo by MCSN Meagan Klein
Aviation ordnancemen assigned to VFA-195 attach a missile to the wing of an FA-18C Hornet strike fighter before cyclic flight operations aboard the aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk (CV-63). Navy photo by MC2 Carlos Gomez
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