James N. Lawson

• Safety procedures followed while working on aircraft.
• Mentor new mechanics in best practices on the airframe.
• Ensure compliance with Air Force regulations during maintenance activities using IETM Getac laptops.
• Record maintenance actions in aircraft logbooks.
• Change landing gear tires, flightline operations, conduct engine wash procedures, preflight, thruflight, and post flight inspections.
• Adjust PC links on main rotors. Duplex bearing inspections on tail rotor and main rotor.

• CH-47 Chinook rotorhead and swashplate maintainer.
• Disassemble, clean, inspect, repair, overhaul, assemble, forward and aft rotorheads and swashplates for U.S. Army and other partner country military organizations.
• Work well in a team setting.
• Assist with day-to-day operations, working efficiently and productively with all team members.
• Work flexible hours across night, weekend, and holiday shifts.
• Organized and detail-oriented with a strong work ethic.
• Use critical thinking to break down problems, evaluate solutions and make decisions.

2nd Training Support Battalion-364th Regiment. CONUS Replacement Center (CRC) 12.

• Preparing civilians medical screening prior to their employment in overseas locations.
• Demonstrated respect, friendliness and willingness to help wherever needed.
• Worked well in a team setting, providing support and guidance.

• Assisted in maintaining the fleet of eight UH-1(N) helicopter for the AFGSC.
• Daily inspections: Preflight, thru flight, post flight inspections.
• Ongoing maintenance & repair: tail rotor driveshaft & blade, landing gear skid wheel jack, stabilizer bar hydraulic dampener/accumulators, push-pull rods, servocylinders, floor microphone switches, flood lights, radar altimeters.
• Engine and combining gearbox replacement.
• Ongoing inspections: weighing aircraft and fire bottle, fire pull handles ohmmeter testing, greased main rotor mast, swashplates, and tail rotor driveshaft flexible coupling.

• Assisted in laying over two miles of railroad track.
• Operated remote hydraulic compressor to create holes to connect rails together.
• Helped gauge rails to proper width.
• Delivered ties, tie plates, spikes, railroad ties, connecting bars, cut rails to fit ends.

• Assigned to: Korea 2003 & 2008, Texas 2004-2007 (deployed to Iraq 2006-2007), Germany 2009-2010 (deployed to Iraq 2009-2010), Virginia 2011-2012.
• Iraq, served as a team member and successfully assisted in twenty-three 500 flight hour phase inspections.
• Virginia, instructed new Army Soldiers how to properly maintain and perform daily inspections on the AH-64 Apache airframe in classroom and practical hangar maintenance operations.
• Preventive maintenance daily's: 25, 50, 125, 250 flight hour phase inspections.
• Assisted with aircraft, equipment transport and towing.
• Recorded maintenance actions in aircraft logbooks.
• Removed and installed aircraft subsystem assemblies, engines, rotors, gearboxes, transmissions, and flight controls.

• Basic Combat Training & Combat Engineering: Mobility/Counter-mobility, controlling battlefield environment.
• Military bulldozer (ACE) Armored Combat Earthmover.
• Trained to deploy and recover U.S. landmines, Bangalore torpedoes and TNT.
• Trained with crew-served weapon systems and Bailey bridge construction.
• Trained small squad team tactics and jungle operations.
• First aid training.