Calibrating measuring devices in a lab may not sound exciting, but when you’re talking about ensuring hospital equipment, test equipment, and aircraft instrument test sets function properly, it’s an indispensable part of forward operations. Which is why the precision measurement equipment laboratory’s claim of being the only 379th Expeditionary Maintenance Squadron workgroup that serves the entire AOR in Southwest Asia carries weight. The team, which covers 201 work centers within eight countries, has seen its monthly workload increase within the past six months by 1,200 items.
In written testimony to the Senate, the nominee to oversee the Air Force’s installations and energy enterprise endorsed the continued privatization of military housing and called for the department to think more during the acquisition process about how it will power new weapons systems when the logistics supply chain is…
