Crew chiefs: First Out, Last Back

Crew chiefs: First Out, Last Back

It’s 8:39 on a Sunday morning and the 177th Maintenance Squadron crew chiefs’ panel truck is shadowing four F-16 Fighting Falcons as the aircraft taxi out to the takeoff point at the end of the runway. All four F-16s pull up side-by-side at the takeoff point, while the panel truck pulls over to the side of the runway at the New Jersey Air National Guard’s 177th Fighter Wing, Atlantic City Air National Guard Base, New Jersey.