Maintainers turn Rivet Joint
Senior Airman Weylin Oliver and Airman 1st Class Ami Grabowski create and route test signals from a maintenance station aboard an RC-135 Rivet Joint reconnaissance aircraft deployed to Southwest Asia while Senior Airman Dennis Kidwell fields a call from his maintenance supervisor. On average, it takes close to two years for these technicians to become 100 percent qualified to perform the 146 core tasks that are needed to maintain the planes sophisticated intelligence gathering hardware. The three are electronic warfare specialists. Airmen Grabowski and Oliver are from the 97th Intelligence Squadron from Offutt Air Force Base, Neb. Airman Kidwell is deployed from the 488th Intelligence Squadron, Royal Air Force Mildenhall, England. (U.S. Air Force photo/Master Sgt. Scott Wagers)
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