Photo By Joseph Mather | ROBINS AIR FORCE BASE, Ga. – The 561st Aircraft Maintenance Squadron and the 558th...... read more read more
After learning of the tragic loss of 48th Fighter Wing pilot 1st Lt. Kenneth "Kage" Allen, the 561st Aircraft Maintenance Squadron and the 558th AMXS paint team, both with the Warner Robins Air Logistics Complex at Robins Air Force Base, Georgia, collaborated to stencil Allen's name on one of three F-15 aircraft.
The F-15 had just completed its Programmed Depot Maintenance and is slated to return to Royal Air Force Lakenheath, United Kingdom.
Allen was piloting an F-15C Eagle during a training mission when his plane crashed into the North Sea June 15.
“We wanted to honor 1st Lt. Allen by placing his name on the side of the F-15E that is about to depart to RAF Lakenheath, United Kingdom,” said Todd Cross 561st AMXS P-Flight deputy.
Months earlier the maintenance team lost one of their valued members.
“We had placed the name of Mr. Kenneth Walker, one of our coworkers that had recently passed away, on one of the Lakenheath F-15’s and flew a flag for his family in his honor some months earlier,” said Cross.
The maintenance teams wanted to honor Allen by stenciling his name on an F-15E to remember him and his families sacrifice.
“Our team felt like it was the right thing to do by honoring Lt. Allen the same way we had done with Mr. Walker,” said Cross. “Our thought was that they would feel the same way we did when seeing his name, as we did when we saw Mr. Walker’s.”
Jim Kelly, 561st AMXS director, agreed with his team’s plan.
"This is our way of honoring a fallen warrior and sharing our grief and well wishes with our warfighting teammates at Lakenheath," he said.
| Date Taken: | 06.18.2020 |
| Date Posted: | 08.03.2020 14:53 |
| Story ID: | 375180 |
| Location: | ROBINS AIR FORCE BASE, GEORGIA, US |
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