Airman 1st Class Tyler, a 432nd Aircraft Maintenance Squadron MQ-9 Reaper maintainer, inspects the wing of the aircraft after a training mission at Creech Air Force Base, Nevada. Maintainers provide a visual inspection to the remotely piloted aircraft to detect cracks and prevent possible malfunctions for future missions. As an RPA maintainer, he works closely with pilots, sensor operators and intelligence officers to complete each mission objective.

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