39 MXG ready for MSEP inspection

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  • By Senior Airman Heather Stanton
  • 39th Air Base Wing Public Affairs
INCIRLIK AIR BASE, Turkey --  The 39th Maintenance Group is ready and waiting for the upcoming Maintenance Standardization Evaluations Program inspection April 28 to May 2. 

An MSEP is already in place at Incirlik and is run by the 39 MXG quality assurance office. The program covers all guidelines for tasks performed on a daily basis within the group. 

"The upcoming inspection is a little more intense than what we do here daily," said Chief Master Sgt. Bart Ellis, 39th Maintenance Squadron superintendent. "The inspectors will verify that the local MSEP meets their requirements." 

Altogether, eight inspectors will come out for the United States Air Forces in Europe bi-annual inspection, said Master Sgt. Mark Pindell, 39 MXG quality assurance superintendent. The inspectors will evaluate how well the 10 workcenters of 39 MXG run their programs. 

Even though an MSEP was already in place and not much had to be done to prepare for the inspection, the group "pulled out the polish" by creating a Tiger Team, said Chief Ellis. 

"We pulled one person from each work center to take a look at every shop," said Sergeant Pindell. "The team looked at the best practices from each shop and how to perform their programs better." 

All the workcenters within the maintenance group have their own specific duties to ensure the Incirlik mission keeps going. 

The Airmen of the transient alert office escort aircraft unfamiliar with the Incirlik runway to their parking location on the flightline. This is also when crew chiefs come in, if needed. 

Incirlik has crew chiefs available for all types of aircraft, from heavies such as C-17s to fighters such as F-16s and other aircraft that may frequent the base, said Sergeant Pindell. 

Also within the 39 MXG is a precision measurement equipment laboratory; however, at Incirlik, PMEL is not a lab at all, but a one-person shop that ships and receives equipment to and from Ramstein Air Base, Germany, for repairs, said Staff Sgt. Paul Niles, 39 MXS PMEL. The equipment is anything that needs to be calibrated such as torque wrenches and weight scales. 

Other sections that have a role in the everyday mission here are the structural maintenance, metals technology and aerospace ground equipment shops. 

The structural maintenance and metals technology workcenters are collocated at Incirlik and work together by constructing and welding pieces of sheet metal to make necessary repairs to aircraft skins and AGE equipment. 

The AGE shop maintains and provides equipment such as generators and light sources for use on the flightline. 

These workcenters, along with all others in the maintenance group, are ready to show the MSEP inspectors that Incirlik Airmen do what they are supposed to do to get the job done right.