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SPANGDAHLEM AIR BASE, Germany – Airman 1st Class Nicholas Chapman, left, and Staff Sgt. Michael Stephens, right, 52nd Equipment Maintenance Squadron ammunition specialists, use a technical order to take apart and reassemble an F-16 Fighting Falcon ammunition loader while Chief Master Sgt. Oscar Mackin, 2nd Air Force command chief, and Maj. Gen. Leonard Patrick, 2nd AF commander, tour 372nd Training Squadron Detachment 2 classrooms and training facilities inside Bldg. 43 here April 18. Patrick and Mackin visited the 372nd TRS Det 2 during their 2nd AF overseas units tour. The detachment offers advanced skills using classroom and hands-on training on the F-16 Fighting Falcon and A-10 Thunderbolt II for more than eight different aircraft maintenance career fields. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Dillon Davis/Released)
SPANGDAHLEM AIR BASE, Germany – Airmen assigned to the 52nd Aircraft Maintenance Squadron learn about A-10 Thunderbolt II manual canopy release methods while Chief Master Sgt. Oscar Mackin, 2nd Air Force command chief, and Maj. Gen. Leonard Patrick, 2nd AF commander, observe the training course during a tour of 372nd Training Squadron Detachment 2 classrooms and training facilities inside Bldg. 43 here April 18. Patrick and Mackin visited the 372nd TRS Det 2 during their 2nd AF overseas units tour. The detachment offers advanced skills using classroom and hands-on training on the F-16 Fighting Falcon and A-10 Thunderbolt II for more than eight different aircraft maintenance career fields. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Dillon Davis/Released)
SPANGDAHLEM AIR BASE, Germany – Master Sgt. Steven Bousquet, 372nd Training Squadron Detachment 2 jet propulsions maintenance training instructor, explains how instructor-guided training expands maintainers’ knowledge to Maj. Gen. Leonard Patrick, 2nd Air Force commander, during a tour of 372nd TRS Det 2 classrooms and training facilities inside Bldg. 43 here April 18. Patrick and Chief Master Sgt. Oscar Mackin, 2nd AF command chief, visited the 372nd TRS Det 2 during their 2nd AF overseas units tour. The detachment offers advanced skills using classroom and hands-on training on the F-16 Fighting Falcon and A-10 Thunderbolt II for more than eight different aircraft maintenance career fields. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Dillon Davis/Released)
SPANGDAHLEM AIR BASE, Germany – Chief Master Sgt. Oscar Mackin, 2nd Air Force command chief, looks at a microchip through a microscope during a tour of 372nd Training Squadron Detachment 2 classrooms and training facilities inside Bldg. 43 here April 18. Maj. Gen. Leonard Patrick, 2nd AF commander, and Mackin visited the 372nd TRS Det 2 during their 2nd AF overseas units tour. The detachment offers advanced skills using classroom and hands-on training on the F-16 Fighting Falcon and A-10 Thunderbolt II for more than eight different aircraft maintenance career fields. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Dillon Davis/Released)