First ever Air National Guard member teaches at Sheppard

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  • By Senior Airman Kyle E. Gese
  • 82nd Training Wing Public Affairs

For the first time in Air National Guard history a database manager with the ANG, provided supplemental training to active Air Force Maintenance Management Analysis instructors at Sheppard Air Force Base.

Senior Master Sgt. Adam Hatter was invited to Sheppard by the 363rd Training Squadron schoolhouse as a means to provide real-time information about a maintenance management analysis system called G081. Airmen use G081 in the Air Mobility Command to gather data about the status of Air Force heavy aircraft assets and the maintenance performed on them.

“When the maintainers complete their hard efforts and document their work, then the commander’s want to know what was done and how that affects our fleet,” Hatter said. “So we get to show what happened, how it happened and the trend of it happening again. We do a lot of history, statistics and try to predict the future status of our aircraft.”

Hatter’s visit to Sheppard was special because of his service position with the ANG and that he came to the Air Education and Training Command to provide training. It’s more common to see instructors from the schoolhouses visit other bases for their supplemental training and not to receive it at their duty station, said Dennis Holt, instructor supervisor for 363rd TRS Maintenance Management Analysis course.

“G081 is a command specific database, where the rest of the Air Force uses a system called IMDS (Integrated Maintenance Data System),” Holt said. “Senior Master Sergeant Hatter came to us by invitation so we could receive supplemental training to make us better as instructors. We are always looking for ways to improve what we do so we can provide mission capable Airmen to the world’s greatest Air Force.”