Aviation Maintenance Technicians (
AMT) are an enlisted rating of the
United States Coast Guard. They inspect, service, maintain, troubleshoot and repair
aircraft engines, auxiliary power units, propellers, rotor systems, power train systems, and associated
airframe and systems-specific electrical components. They service, maintain and repair
aircraft fuselages; wings; rotor blades; fixed and movable flight control surfaces; and also bleed aircraft air, hydraulic and
fuel systems. AMTs fill aircrew positions such as
flight engineer,
flight mechanic,
loadmaster, dropmaster, sensor-systems operator and basic aircrewman.