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Carl Vinson (CVN 70) in the Arabian Gulf, My Powerplants Work Center Was Knocking out and Fixing Whatever Discrepancies Came Our Way Page Left Intentionally Blank The Navy & Marine Corps Aviation Maintenance Safety Magazine Winter 2015, Volume 53 No. 2 RDML Christopher J. Murray, Commander, Naval Safety Center Col Glen Butler, USMC, Deputy Commander Features CMDCM(AW/SW) Paul Kingsbury, Command Master Chief Maggie Menzies , Head, Media and Public Affairs Department 2 When 3 out of 4 Is Bad Naval Safety Center (757) 444-3520 (DSN 564) Dial the following Lessons learned the hard way but second chances extensions any time during the greeting make it all good. Publications Fax (757) 444-6791 By AD3 Sean Landrum Mech Staff Nika Glover Editor-in-Chief [email protected] Ext. 7257 AMC Brian Bailey Associate Editor 4 Rushed a Checklist? Me? ...Never. [email protected] Ext. 7293 Perceived pressure to get the job done. Allan Amen Art Director By LCDR Jason Russo [email protected] Ext. 7248 John Williams Graphic Artist [email protected] Ext. 7254 6 MO’s Comments Analysts A message from CDR Tom Gibbons, Aviation CDR Thomas Gibbons Aircraft Maintenance and Material Division Head Maintenance Officer Naval Safety Center. [email protected] Ext. 7265 CW05 Daniel Kissel Avionics/ALSS Branch Head [email protected] Ext. 7278 7 Nothing to Stand On MGySgt William Potts System Maintenance Assistant Branch Head When reading is fundamental and procedures get [email protected] Ext. 7276 AMC Brian Bailey Airframes/Hydraulic bypassed. Danger! [email protected] Ext. 7285 by AT3 Grant Pick GySgt Robert Godwin Airframes [email protected] Ext. 7292 AMC Shana Goodman Airframes [email protected] Ext. 7256 8 Growler Gets Hammered ADCS Elmer Bagtas Powerplants First time aboard a new ship, maintainers with a new [email protected] Ext. 7190 plane work out the kinks for operational awareness. ADC David Cook Powerplants [email protected] Ext. 7219 By AT2 Dunstan Holloway GySgt Greg Dutton Powerplants [email protected] 7291 GySgt John Ayo Logs and Records/TD/CTPL [email protected] Ext. 7239 On the cover: ABH3 T. A. Taifai uses a spotting dolly to move AZC Marcus Fuller Logs and Records/TD/CTPL [email protected] Ext. 7222 an MH-60S Seahawk assigned to HSC-5 in the hangar bay of AECS Brian Grimes Avionics the aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75). (U.S. Navy [email protected] Ext.7256 photo by MC J. A. Mateo) ATCS Daniel Eborn Avionics [email protected] Ext. 7280 Sailors prepare an F/A-18F Super GySgt Theophilus Thomas Avionics [email protected] Ext. 7291 Hornet assigned to VFA-11 for PRCS James Adams ALSS/Egress/Environmental launch during flight operations [email protected] Ext. 7290 aboard the aircraft carrier USS AMEC Tom West ALSS/Egress/Environmental Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71). [email protected] Ext. (U.S. Navy photo by MC3 Anna ASCS Angel Santos Aviation Support Equipment [email protected] Ext. 7187 Van Nuys) GySgt jacob Gonzalez Ordanance [email protected] Ext. 7215 LT Tracy Mackey Facilities Branch, Fuels, CFR/ARFF, Bash [email protected] Ext. 7281 ACC Christopher Sweet Air Traffic Control [email protected] Ext. 7240 ABCM Tyrone Roseborough ALRE/Air Terminal [email protected] Ext. 7218 Code 12 All Call Number: [email protected] Ext. 7812 Mishaps cost time and resources. They take our Sailors, Marines and civilian employees away from their units and workplaces and put them in hospitals, wheelchairs and coffins. Mishaps EDITOR’S NOTE ruin equipment and weapons. They diminish our readiness. This magazine’s goal is to help make sure that personnel can devote their time and energy to the mission. We believe there is only WHERE IS THE GOLDEN one way to do any task: the way that follows the rules and takes precautions against hazards. Combat is hazardous; the time to learn to do a job right is before combat starts. WRENCH? Following the lead of our flagship magazine, Approach, we have Mech (ISSN 1093-8753) is published quarterly by Commander, Naval Safety Center, and hidden a wrench icon within the cover design. It is smaller than is an authorized publication for members of the Department of Defense. Contents are not the wrench pictured here. In previous issues it was Navy blue necessarily the official views of, or endorsed by, the U.S. Government, the Department of and on the TOC page. We hope you enjoy this issue. Thank you Defense, or the U.S. Navy. Photos and artwork are representative and do not necessar- ily show the people or equipment discussed. We reserve the right to edit all manuscripts. for your service and submitting your BZs, stories and articles Reference to commercial products does not imply Navy endorsement. Unless otherwise they are invaluable to saving lives through mishap-revention stated, material in this magazine may be reprinted without permission; please credit the efforts. magazine and author. Periodicals postage paid at Norfolk, Va., and additional mailing offices. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to Mech, Naval Safety Center, 375 A Street, Norfolk, VA 23511-4399. Send articles, BZs and letters to the address above, or via e-mail to the Mech staff, [email protected]. 10 Communication is Key 22 Hot Off the Press! Missing a part of the daily routine leads to a commu- Ride magazine uses covert learning to keep riders nication breakdown in the the chain of events. safe. By AT2 John Baker By Nika Glover 12 Nickels and Dimes 24 How Not to Do It After the team reaches it’s limitations the chief steps When training takes a curve. in and leads by example. By LCDR Austin Coovert By AD1 Adrian Casas 14 Brainstorms and Rewards A quick primmer on the Military Cash Awards Program (MILCAP). Departments By AM1 Brian Patrick Young 16 Centerfold Pullout Poster 18 That’s Not Residual Fuel Aviation maintenance fall protection An early look at our maintenance program through the lens of Operational Risk Management. 26 Bravo Zulu LT Mark Strum VAW-115, HSM-37, VAW-124, VP-4, VAW-87, AIMD Misawa, Coast Guard Air Station Barbers Point and 20 Friday FCF Follies (“What Rig Pin?”) L3 Vertex Contractors The “Swiss cheese” holes had lined right up, until the NATOPS-prescribed prestart checks on the tail-rotor 30 Maintainers in the Trenches controls. Photos of mechs on the job. By LT Derek Johnson School of Aviation Safety, Quarterly Newsletter http://www.public.navy.mil/navsafecen/Pages/aviation/ SAS/newsletter_archive.aspx www.facebook.com/NavalSafetyCenter www.twitter.com/NSC_Updates Get Twitter Video Updates at: www.twitter. com/NSC_Vid_Updates WATCH OUR VIDEOS at: www.youtube.com/navalsafetycenter Pinterest-http://www.pinterest.com/navsafecenter/ Flickr-https://www.flickr.com/photos/navalsafetycenter/ By AD3 Sean Landrum t started out as just another day in the VR-55 mainte- nance department. Our power plants shop had been awaiting four rubber spacers so that we could install a bleed-air check valve that was giving us a low- Ibleed-air check. I was eager to get the job done. My coworker and I had checked out our tool box, our pubs, support equipment and parts. We proceeded to the aircraft to start our job. The bleed-air line ran from the load control valve on the auxil- iary power unit (APU) to the manifold. Sgt. Jesus R. Rivera, a quality assurance representative (QAR) from Fleet Readiness Center (FRC) Northwest, reviews maintenance history records with AZ2 Lorenzo Carter. (U.S. Navy photo by MC3 James Evans) (U.S. Navy photo by MC3 Ricardo Guzman) 2 Mech The check valve kept air from enter- shooting in maintenance is to look at been disastrous. Several of our chiefs ing back into the APU. It mounted what was worked on last. Our night have been at commands that had to the load-control line (the line for check did just that. They tore into lost aircraft. They knew the pain a the manifold) and was secured with the valve only to find three of the squadron goes through after losing four bolts, four spacers, and two four mounting bolts installed. Fear- an aircraft and fellow Sailors. Since V-band clamps with gaskets. We con- ing one of them had fallen out, they I hadn’t used my resources or asked nected the line. Then we installed got with QA to do a FOD search. for help, I was recommended for the V-band clamps and gaskets, and My night check CDI called me and captain’s mast via XOI. I certainly three of the four mounting bolts. asked about it. I told him the truth deserved it. The fourth mounting bolt, however, and drove the bolt in from home. At captain’s mast, I was given was a problem. The next morning, I came into a suspended bust for six months, A large APU exhaust duct ran work, checked my tools, and waited an adverse evaluation so I couldn’t up from behind the APU. It kept us for my LPO to arrive, knowing he take the next advancement exam, from installing that last bolt. I tried would ask about the situation. He and extra military instruction for 30 for more than an hour, and my frus- did, so I pulled him and my division days. I was beyond grateful to be tration kept mounting. My LPO and chief into his office to explain every- given a second chance, although I another CDI were less than 200 feet thing. I knew at this point my career knew that I wouldn’t be able to get away, installing a new turbine on one was going to take a drastic turn.
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