Chapter 4 ~ Maintenance
Section A - Mission
The mintenance missicn was to maintain assigned sircraft, ground
support eauipment, specirl purpose vehicles, and seme greund ari all
air communications equipment in a maximum state of readiness.
There
were a total of seventy-eight (78) aircraft of sixteon (15) different
types and 342 units of aircraft ground support equiprent included in
the Tas! Greup 7.4 inventory.
An additional work load was created in
providing turn-around raintenarce for particireting U.S. Navy aircraft,
based «t Kwajalein, MATS and transient traffic.
(Zee figure 9,).
Sectien B - Organization and Functicn
The basic structure of organizaticn and functicn closely raralleled
the standards contained in Air Force Manual 66-].
‘There were, however,
some miner deviaticns instituted in criler te tailor the rainterarce
efforts to the unique sissicn,
The mairterance crgnr‘zaticn included a
staff rairtenance officer in the Task Groun Feadcuarters, a Maintenarce
Control] Unit and an crganizaticnal maintenance section in pach elerert.
The Staff Mairterance Cfficer formulated requirerents for both
augmentation personrel ani support equiprent requirel in the EPG,
The rpross requirements develcped by participating ele-erts were
correlated and reduced to a minimum net quantity corpatible with the
anticipated worl: loads.
The Staff Maintenance Cfficer served as acvisor to the Directer of
Materiel; stardardized reintenance policies end practices; maintained
statisical data, moritered renorts and distributed technical publicaticns,
The inirter.ance Contre] Unit ascirned dircetly te Task Creup Mead~
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quarters, was activiated corcurrert with the arrival of the Advarced
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