Aviation Maintenance Technicians ensure helicopters are always ready

DATE: September 23, 2008 10:29:10 AKST

Office of Public Affairs
U.S. Coast Guard Seventeenth District

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"Aviation Maintenance Technicians ensure helicopters are always ready"
Photographed by Petty Officer 3rd Class Richard Brahm

KODIAK, Alaska - Air Station Kodiak is home to four MH-60 Jayhawk helicopters that require routine maintenance ranging from fluid changes to complete engine overhauls. Aviation maintenance technicians ensure there is always a Jayhawk ready to fly. Maintenance is conducted 24 hours a day seven days a week.

ABOVE: Aviation maintenance technicians work on an Air Station Kodiak-based MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter as part of routine heavy maintenance for the engines and electrical equipment Sept. 18, 2008. [View High Resolution]

LEFT: Petty Officers 3rd Class Jacolby Cross, left, and Julie Mirador, aviation maintenance technicians, perform routine heavy maintenance on the engines of a MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter Sept. 17, 2008. [View High Resolution]

Tools sit in form fitting trays at Air Station Kodiak's MH-60 maintenance department Sept. 18, 2008. Tool boxes are organized for accountability purposes and easy access. Aviation maintenance technicians have at their disposal over 1,500 individual tools ranging from a 3-inch long phillips head jewelers screw driver to a three-ton crane.[View High Resolution]

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