Video: 127th AMXS Skills Competition

127th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron training video

by SSgt. Rachel Barton
127th Wing Public Affairs

7/18/2010 - Selfridge Air National Guard Base, Mich. -- The full time technicians of the 127th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron have developed a unique training blitz which combines job skills with friendly competition on the flight line and in the hangars. Crew chiefs of the 191st AMXS squadron worked in teams of four, competing at tasks such as towing aircraft, changing tires, and adding necessary lubricants and fluids to the A-10 attack aircraft. Click here to see a video of the action.

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Reporter: It was crew chief versus crew chief at Selfridge Air National Guard Base during the July unit training assembly. The full time technicians of the 127th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron have developed a unique training blitz which combines job skills with friendly competition on the flight line and in the hangars. Crew chiefs of the 191st AMXS squadron worked in teams of four, competing at tasks such as towing aircraft, changing tires, and adding necessary lubricants and fluids to the A-10 attack aircraft. The 191st AMXS crew chiefs are the enlisted specialists charged with overseeing Selfridge's fleet of A-10s.

Note:

By posting of that I overlooked the typo "191st AMXS", made by 127th Wing Public Affairs. In fact, the 191st Aircraft Maintenance Squadron (191st AMXS) is associated to the 127th Air Refueling Group, a KC-135 Stratotanker unit and subordinated to the 127th Wing.

Caught in the video are A-10s 80-0255 and 80-0269, formerly assigned to the 172nd Fighter Squadron, 110th Fighter Wing (Michigan ANG), Battle Creek, Michigan (Tailcode BC).

Background info from my Warthog Aircraft Database:
80-0255 (A10-0605) 172nd FS, 110th FW (BC)
80-0269 (A10-0619) 172nd FS, 110th FW (BC)