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Instead of EKIA, you could rewrite that into the current PC language of the day. "Improved the lives of women and same sex couples by providing kinetic education with a 100% guaranteed non-recidivism rate."

I bombed Iraq, Afghanistan, and Libya and all I got was SAPR training.

WSO's qualify for a gently used Yugo...

The AMXS/CC here told us he's 80 NCO's short of what he's supposed to have. Another problem for local sorties here is that only 5/7 levels deploy, which means most of them are deployed. That also means a lot of young 3-levels are left to launch/recover your jet at home. One thing that MX needs to stop doing is that CUT program. Nothing is more frustrating asking general Crew Chief questions and having a Comm Nav and E/E troop being the ones that's launching the jet and have no idea how to answer the questions.

There's multiple camera, unlike one sighting window. I've had so much anti-ice fluid on the sighting window, being from Manas, that I've told an A-10 (who was supporting a TIC) to make his own contact and tell me when to extend.

There are no words for how fucked up that picture is.

At the end of the last link posted. They have a Boeing Engineer commenting on the KC-46. And it's issues Ah, the KC-46. The airplane I ended my career at Boeing with. What a train-wreck that thing is. If you only knew the half of it, you would be shocked. Boeing will never make a single penny on that program. Not one. First thing is that the major airframe structure is actually based on the 767-400 freighter. What is that you ask? I know that's not an actual thing, yet, but it's in the engineering database... Oh, and did you know that the first major hick-up was that someone forgot to actually calculate the volume of the cargo deck to see if it could actually hold the required amount of fuel per contract? Yeah, it was too small. Solution? Take your already-engineered airplane and throw the majority of the drawings away and start over! Lower the cargo floor, revise the stanchion locations, push out the sidewalls, come up with thinner designs for the main deck, fittings, etc. Then we can just barely squeeze those tanks in there! Oh, you mean we have to actually have enough room for a man to bolt those tanks in place in the factory? Crap! And I suppose you are going to require us to have enough room for an airman in arctic gear to be able to unbolt them and remove all the tanks in under an hour? Good news! If we have floor panels that flip up on the main deck, we can then grab that airman by his ankles and lower him/her head first to the locking bolts. Oh, and we're going to save tons of money by reusing pre-engineered systems too! Wait, those "engineered" systems that have non-conforming hand-drawn sketches and are rife with errors? Oh, I guess we need to update those! Don't worry, we've been building the derivative that those systems exist on for decades! We'll make it up by reusing the installation plans the factory has successfully been using without error! Yeah, the plans that say "install per drawing" and references the already mentioned poor engineering and don't meet any Boeing process specification in existence. Guess we'll have to work our Manufacturing Engineers 7 days a week for 8 months straight! Don't worry, we'll lay them off when we're done with them! I can go on...and on...and on...super panels, panoramic fairings, promising work to Japan for cost-sharing, then undercutting them and stealing it back, fuel lines that don't conform to spec, center hose pressure bulkhead...oh wait, that actually worked out really well. Oh, want to know why there isn't a man laying in a pod looking out a window? Because there's no room once the lower 46/47 is stuffed with fuel in order to meet requirements. So, spit shine it with some high-tech razzle dazzle and talk of "better teaming on the flight deck" and call it good.

I'm pretty sure we need to hear more about this brawl about someone's wife...along with pics...of the wife of course.

Favorite AD MX stories from Dyess circa 2002-2003. We had one crew step to a jet that was broken. They asked for the spare and were denied. When they asked why, the response was, "if you take the spare, we won't have a spare." New jet, new day, crew gets involved in discussion pre-step about deferred MX. A fairly basic problem was being pushed off. When asked why, MX reply was that accomplishing the required fix "might" show the fire blanket around the motors was torn, necessitating a red X and replacement. They were putting off basic MX knowing there was a bigger problem. Prize winner: going out to fly a very high vis test sortie, a former maintainer out to support the test said his friends back at Tinker (B-1 depot) were surprised we were taking this particular jet on account of the large cracks discovered in the longeron. No notes in forms, but discussion with MX confirmed they were discussing it over the last week. We elected to take the spare, then move the weapons to a third jet before going.

I'm wearing my morale patches with no apologies from now on if they are OK having dudes run around in heels in their uniforms.

Future Eagle pilot

Guys, this is just the beginning. Progressives don't stop.

all FYI 106th rescue wing.... hiring ... looking for CRO's HH60's pilots and HC-130 as well as flight surgeons ...... take look at their website scroll down.... at careers ....

Heard from the 106th RW today, got an HH-60 slot!

So you all are really going to sit here and say the the AF demanded that Laughlin got a half dozen fighter types while they only demanded two from Columbus? Really? Since you are sitting here seeming to know the answers explain that one. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Yup you caught me. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk