Aircraft surgeons repair and replace B-52 skin and bones
Staff Sgt. Montez Lee, 2nd Maintenance Squadron aircraft structural maintenance craftsman, uses an impact riveter at Barksdale Air Force Base, La., Nov. 13, 2014. By using a variety of tools such as drills, rivet guns, metal shears, planishing hammers, metal brakes and English wheels to form new metal skins to replace old ones, saving replacement costs, allows the B-52H Stratofortress to complete its mission of providing decisive nuclear deterrence and conventional firepower to combatant commanders for global strike operations (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Jason McCasland)
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