Weapons Load Competition

Senior Airman Zackary Salazar, 421st Aircraft Maintenance Unit, prepares an MAU-12 bomb rack on an F-16 aircraft April 8 at Hill Air Force Base, Utah. Salazar and two other Airmen from the 421st AMU competed in the 388th Fighter Wing’s quarterly weapons load competition. (U.S. Air Force photo by R. Nial Bradshaw)

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Weapons Load Competition

Staff Sgt. Sarah Limb, 466th Aircraft Maintenance Unit, installs fins on an AIM-120 missile April 8 at Hill Air Force Base, Utah. Limb installed the missile onto an F-16 aircraft during the 388th Fighter Wing’s quarterly weapons load competition, a competition that included a crew who loaded the first F-35 aircraft during such an event at the base. (U.S. Air Force photo by Paul Holcomb)

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Weapons Load Competition

Senior Airman Trisha Himes, assigned to the 4th Aircraft Maintenance Unit, closes an MAU-12 cable access panel on an F-16 aircraft bomb rack after loading a GBU-31 bomb during the 388th Fighter Wing’s quarterly weapons load competition April 8 at Hill Air Force Base, Utah. The competition featured teams from four AMUs, including one F-35A Lightning II team, a first in a quarterly competition at Hill. (U.S. Air Force photo by Paul Holcomb)

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Weapons Load Competition

Senior Airman Hunter Swanson, 421st Aircraft Maintenance Unit, fills out aircraft forms during the 388th Fighter Wing’s quarterly weapons load competition April 8 at Hill Air Force Base, Utah. (U.S. Air Force photo by R. Nial Bradshaw)

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Weapons Load Competition

Senior Airman Hunter Swanson, foreground, and Staff Sgt. Lance Klain, both assigned to the 421st Aircraft Maintenance Unit, perform munitions preparation on a GBU-31 bomb April 8 at Hill Air Force Base, Utah. Swanson and Salazar, along with Senior Airman Zackary Salazar, competed against teams from the 4th Aircraft Maintenance Unit, 34th Aircraft Maintenance Unit, and 466th Aircraft Maintenance Unit in the 388th Fighter Wing’s quarterly weapons load competition. (U.S. Air Force photo by R. Nial Bradshaw)

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Weapons Load Competition

Evaluator Master Sgt. Jeffrey Taggart, 388th Maintenance Group, Airman Juan Rivas and Staff Sgt. Jeffrey Kalsbeek, both assigned to the 388th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron, prepare ordnance during the 388th Fighter Wing quarterly weapons load competition April 8 at Hill Air Force Base, Utah. Rivas and Kalsbeek were chosen to compete as the first team to load an F-35 aircraft while competing against similar teams loading F-16 aircraft. (U.S. Air Force photo by Todd Cromar)

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Weapons Load Competition

Tech. Sgt. Heidi Goulet and Staff Sgt. John Manayam, both assigned to the 466th Aircraft Maintenance Unit, guide a GBU-31 bomb toward the MAU-12 bomb rack on an F-16 aircraft April 8 at Hill Air Force Base, Utah. Goulet and Manayam, along with 466th AMU team member Staff Sgt. Heidi Limb, competed with three other AMUs during the 388th Fighter Wing’s quarterly weapons load competition. (U.S. Air Force photo by Paul Holcomb)

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Weapons Load Competition

Load crews from the 4th, 421st, 34th and 466th Aircraft Maintenance Units compete in the 388th Fighter Wing’s quarterly weapons load competition April 8 at Hill Air Force Base, Utah. (U.S. Air Force photo)

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388th AMUs participate in load competition

Published April 15, 2016
388th Fighter Wing

HILL AIR FORCE BASE, Utah -- Load crews from the 388th Fighter Wing's 4th, 421st, 34th and 466th Aircraft Maintenance Units competed in a weapons load competition here April 8. This was the first time an F-35 had been loaded in a competition in Air Combat Command. It was also the first competition ever in which all four AMUs competed.

Weapons Load Competition

Weapons Load Competition

Weapons Load Competition

Weapons Load Competition

Weapons Load Competition

Weapons Load Competition

Weapons Load Competition

Weapons Load Competition