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康涅狄格州警卫队拥有专业飞机维修设施
康涅狄格州是美国一些最大的军工企业的所在地，例如西科斯基、电船和普惠公司。然而，它......
来源:美国陆军国民警卫队GROTON, Conn. – At the Connecticut National Guard’s 1109th Aviation Classification and Repair Depot, or AVCRAD, workers refurbish and maintain the U.S. Army’s fleet of rotary-wing aircraft, a unique job that can save the Department of War, or DOW, millions of dollars a year.
Unlike field units that are trained and equipped to conduct basic maintenance on their aircraft, the AVCRAD is capable of stripping a helicopter – whether it’s a UH-60 Black Hawk, a CH-47 Chinook or an AH-64 Apache – to its nuts and bolts and rebuilding it to factory standards as if it just rolled off the assembly line.
“一般来说，陆军航空兵的维护有两个级别，”第一中士说。 Jarod Meekhoff，飞机和航空维修质量控制检查员。 “There is field-level maintenance and sustainment-level maintenance. We are considered a sustainment-level facility in that we can do the highest level maintenance comparable with any Army aviation depot … That being said, the kind of work that we do is highly technical, which is why we have a lot of specialized tools, equipment and specialized individuals here with the knowledge and skills capable of doing that.”
Connecticut is home to some of the country’s largest military-industrial businesses, including Sikorsky, General Dynamics Electric Boat and Pratt & Whitney.因此，康涅狄格州也是 AVCRAD 的所在地，这是很合适的。 The Groton-based facility employs highly skilled uniformed mechanics and some of the industry’s most talented civilian contractors to refurbish and maintain the aircraft.
“在进行基地维护时，我们基本上可以拿一架飞机从头开始检修，”米霍夫说。 “That’s removing all the components, stripping all the paint, doing significant structural upgrades, structural repairs, component repairs [and] component overhauls.”
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