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Creech detachment enhances RPA maintenance

By Senior Airman Adarius Petty

432nd Wing/432nd Air Expeditionary Wing Public Affairs

U.S. Air Force photo CREECH AIR FORCE BASE, Nev. — Maintaining fully
trained Airmen for the U.S. Air Force’s remotely piloted
Detachment 13, Operation Location A instructors and students place a landing gear into an aircraft at Creech Air aircraft enterprise is a daunting task.
Force Base, Nev., Nov. 6. Det. 13 OL-A provides maintenance training to the remotely piloted aircraft enterprise. Crew
chiefs, avionics, weapons and communications courses are offered from the staff of six instructors. For Detachment 13, 372nd Training Squadron, providing
follow-up training for maintenance personnel of the MQ-
1B Predator and MQ-9 Reaper at Creech Air Force Base,
Nevada, is a top priority.

“Det. 13 Operation Location A provides maintenance
training to the remotely piloted aircraft initiative,” said
Master Sgt. Christopher, Det 13. OL-A section chief. “Crew
chiefs, avionics, and weapons and communications courses
are offered from our staff of six Air Education and Training
Command instructors.”

RPA maintainers begin training at the 372nd TRS, Shep-
pard AFB, Texas, where they learn technical aircraft mainte-
nance using classroom and hands-on practical instruction.
The detachment also offers training for Air National Guard,
Air Force Reserve, allied forces, and students en-route to
the Pacific Air Forces command.

Assigned instructors provide training on A-10 Thunder-
bolt II, F-15 Eagle, F-15E Strike Eagle, F-16 Fighting Falcon,
F-22 Raptor, HH-60G Pave Hawk, MQ-1 and MQ-9 aircraft.

“Classes taught the most at the operating location are
MQ-9 communications and MQ-9 mechanics. The com-
mons course offers system knowledge to all RPA maintain-

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