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Article: Tools of the trade: new automated program enhances safety, efficiency.(aircraft maintenance)(419th combat Logistics Support Squadron at Hill Air Force Base, Utah)
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- Citizen Airman
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- February 1, 2005
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In the world of aircraft maintenance, whether or not a problem can be fixed sometimes isn't so much about the nature of the repair as it is the tools that are available to the people doing the work.
To ensure members of the 419th Combat Logistics Support Squadron at Hill Air Force Base, Utah, have the right tools to do their jobs, the unit turned to Senior Master Sgt. Robert Madsen and his team of supply specialists.
"When I was first asked to oversee this project, I noticed we had tool kits with incomplete inventories, tools inside of kits that weren't properly labeled ... just a lot of problems," Sergeant Madsen said. "I talked to anybody who had ...