MC5Wes

You mean like the Wing and Group commanders having nearly 0 to do with some misplaced nukes at a Ammunitions Squadron? Colonel Emig, the commander of the 5th Bomb Wing, Colonel Lundell, the commander of the 5th Maintenance Group at Minot, and Colonel Westhauser, the commander of Barksdale's 2d Operations Group were relieved of their commands or positions and reassigned.

Saw this article this morning. https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/21363/usaf-reveals-timelines-and-basing-plans-for-its-huge-adversary-support-contract

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4FnTjhjPJk&feature=youtu.be

Any information about the operations run out of Destin? Vertol and Blue Air? I see Mechanic and Avionics help wanted ads all the time.

I use Ramaworld out of Riverside California. www.ramaworld.com They do everything in house. Including scarves.

I thought it was using the 3D glasses like the Japanese 767.

After I left Active Duty I worked as an Aircraft Mechanic on the Customs aircraft. I was at Houston which is now closed. And Homestead. Here is a link to the current locations. https://www.cbp.gov/border-security/air-sea/oam-operating-locations

Any Reserve Retirees here? My birthday is less than a year away. I know I have to apply for the pay 6 months out. My question is when will I get me first check? I turn 60 on the 24th of the month. Do I get a check a week later on the 31st? Or do I have to wait for a full month?

The place is cursed. They had a technician die a couple of years ago when the AFFF expended.

Jessica Davies

Oh, I'm sure the pay is not enough. Especially for having to live at Moody or Shindand.

While looking for a maintenance job. I saw that SNC is looking for A-29 Pilots at Moody. https://snc.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/SNC_External_Career_Site/job/GA---Moody-AFB/A-29--Super-Tucano--Instructor-Pilot_R0002836

https://www.chcoc.gov/content/federal-civilian-hiring-freeze-guidance

It's in the Executive Order Within 90 days of the date of this memorandum, the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), in consultation with the Director of OPM, shall recommend a long-term plan to reduce the size of the Federal Government's workforce through attrition. This order shall expire upon implementation of the OMB plan. so it's 90 days or until the OMB comes up with a plan.

We are still hiring WG guys here at Edwards. And they told us the freeze is only for 90 days. To be followed by recommendations from OMB on which jobs to cut. https://www.npr.org/assets/news/2017/01/HiringFreeze.pdf

Getting ready to retire and have been looking online for my next job. Saw this ad for UH-1N Operations and maintenance support in Crestview. I know Eglin had some UH-1Ns when I there. But that was range support. The S3 company is looking for Pilots and Mechanics. Is the Air Force moving the UH-1Ns from Kirtland to Duke? https://chj.tbe.taleo.net/chj04/ats/careers/requisition.jsp?org=S3INC&cws=1&rid=2195

Hasn't the UH-1N and HH-60s always been contract maintenance? Do they plan on going contract on the CV-22 and C130 side as well?

Was in Los Angeles this morning car shopping, Afterwards drove over to Hollywood and saw Sicario. Excellent movie. The previews make it look like Emily Blunt is a new G.I. Jane. But it is more of her doing ride along with Brolin and Del Toro.

In a new setback just weeks before the planned first flight of a fully outfitted KC-46 Air Force tanker, the Boeing planes fueling system has been damaged by a chemical mix-up, temporarily grounding the jet. The jet the first test plane outfitted with working air-refueling systems and designated as a tanker was at the fuel dock on Paine Field last week when mechanics used the wrong chemical during a test of the fuel system, according to people familiar with the details. The chemical, supplied by a vendor and mislabeled, caused corrosion and damaged the fuel system, including the advanced new fuel boom designed to offload gas to fighter aircraft, the sources said. https://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/boeing-puts-fix-it-exec-fancher-in-charge-of-troubled-tanker/

Whatever you do. Don't live anywhere where you have to take the parking lot they call Hwy 91. When I was there I lived in the old base housing. It backs right up to the base. The city took it over after the base closed. It was supposed to be Section 8 housing. But the city don't put impose income limits. So most of the housing is filled with people from the base. They had a cypher gate by 4th Air Force when I was there. So most days I rode a bicycle to work. The other side of the housing is where the Commisary and BX is at.

Maybe the same reason the also are the only ones with a CMSP panel installed.

You could pick up some bodies if AETC and AFMC went WG or Contractor. That's what they announced for Luke and the F-35. All Lockheed Martin. https://www.airforcetimes.com/story/military/pentagon/2015/02/27/air-force-cut-18-a10s-from-inventory/24126079/ In addition, the service will contract maintenance for F-35s at the main operational training base, Luke Air Force Base, Arizona. This move "helps ensure enough Air Force maintainers are trained and in place to support the F-35 at initial operational capability and beyond," James said in the release.

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 left the Air Guard in 1999. So im not sure how they are today. But since September of 2007 when the Air Reserve decided to mandate the wearing of the uniform for all ARTs during the week. The Reserve has been on a tear to decimate the ART program. Between absolute adherence to Active Duty F2F and the TFI program. All of the old time ARTS I have worked with have retired. Transferred to DCMA or went straight civilian like I did.