Our Corrosion Control Facilities were built within the last 5 years and meet our needs well. We have severe problems getting the proper preventive or reactive maintenance done to keep facility systems running. The wing's Civil Engineering Squadron is unable to provide preventive maintenance internally and lacks the funds to contract this work out. Subsequently they rely on reactive maintenance but the capability is so limited that much of the work reverts to contracted repairs. The contracting process they're required to utilize is not responsive to wing maintenance priorities.
Many jobs stay open well past six months.
Getting even a small repair accomplished in a month is fortunate. Our Metals Technology and Structural Maintenance shops went without heat all of last winter and half of this winter until it was repaired last week. Many other examples abound. Under our current system, even if we get new facilities keeping the internal systems going will be a constant challenge since the resources aren't in place to keep them running. New facilities are a fantastic thing when they meet the user's requirements.