We were 12 days into tailored ship's training avail-ability (TSTA) onboard the USS Carl Vinson (CVN-70). It was the average "Groundhog Day" of maintaining aircraft, waiting in line to eat, and going to sleep, just to do it all over again. Complacency had truly set in. Near the end of our shift, we were finishing up our repair job on dragon 300 so that the oncoming shift didn't have to take over half way through a job, allowing them to concentrate on the flight schedule. Our power plants work center was finishing up a nearly three month special inspection when one of the mechs said to me, "AD2, just go in and let maintenance control know we're almost done. We can finish installing the fasteners." I agreed and thought to myself, "I have to come back out when they finish and GDI the work."
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