I always wonder what it means for enlisted soldiers
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If you are part of an aviation squadron that has any aircraft, then the majority of enlisted personnel attached to that unit are doing maintenance. All the time. I was shocked when I realized how much maintenance went into the average aircraft.
A lot of it is just regularly scheduled inspections. They are scheduled at different intervals and vary in intensity. As parts fail/decay/weaken, they are replaced, which occasionally triggers things like rerigging controls or rebalancing, etc. Then you need maintenance check flights to make sure the aircraft functions as expected. And the sometimes, you have to do a functional check flight just to get the aircraft to the point where it can be flown for an hour, so it can then be torn apart again for a different maintenance inspection.
There are reasons the accident rate for military aircraft improved so much over the last 80 years and better quality maintenance is one of the more important ones.
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