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"According to the investigation report, the engine was improperly assembled due to procedural failures on the part of the Commodities Maintenance Squadron at the Air Logistics Complex in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma." I'm shocked , shocked I tell you. Maybe the military should start buying its parts from FAA/PMA certified repair stations. It's getting to the point now that I trust canned parts more off another jet than a new one out of a box repaired at any of the 3 ALC depot's. It's all a numbers game and most supervisors integrity is suspect.

Wing Kings were laying serious cash down on bets with other Wing Kings. At a newcomers brief at Mildenhall the Wing CC gave his spiel then told me to stand up and asked if I ever played. Next thing I know I'm suited in pads for practice that evening, I loved it. I heard the German bases were raiding Army barracks for players, it seemed the the German bases had huge O and D lines than the UK bases. It wasn't fair that Woodbridge Bentwaters had Chad Henning suiting up for them. Did that guy even fit in a A-10.

My take on the whole thing from a NFL fans perspective. I'm grumpy old Crew Chief/A&P who is tired of constantly being brow beat every time I have a opposing view from the left. The term racist and bigot have lost all meaning in today's debate since it is used by weak minds who don't have a decent counterpoint. So I turn on the TV on a Sunday afternoon to watch some football. I used to play in High School and USAFE in the 80's when every base fielded a tackle football team, great times. I just want to watch football and not be lectured by guys who have always been on the wrong side of a conversation with a cop. I have been pulled over for your average traffic infraction but never had a bad encounter, is it because I'm white or is it I just cooperated and said I brain farted. The NFL is entertainment short and simple, I want to root for my team or watch some well played games. Most of the times now even without the kneel downs the product is just not good with the stoppages of play, constant penalties and crass advertising. Now you got black players whooping it up when they destroy a white player, I didn't put up with it on active duty and sure don't want to see on my TV. Now if these players are serious they need some skin in game away from the playing field, some give back with their foundations but most these guys could start setting the example by being decent fathers, husbands and friends and stop acting like thugs between Sundays. Start incentives for good behavior for inner city kids who get good grades and come to games as their guests etc. Now get off my grass.

Came across this and seemed relevant to this thread. https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/13486/retired-raf-tristars-will-get-new-life-as-contracted-aerial-refuelers Just wonder how many parts are left for a L-1011.

Always wanted to learn to fly but life got in the way. Every once in awhile I help a friend out and do annuals on GA aircraft. Knowing the MX side and the cost of it all to make a puddle jumper airworthy kind of makes it unattractive. But I never got the training you guys got on Uncle Sam's dime , myopia, so I will never know. Besides you Airline guys have a better union than the A&P's so your incomes are better than mine so GA flying is a option.

It's too bad Boeing used to be a good aerospace company, now it's just a corporation run by MBA's who just want maximum return on investment and answers to nobody but Wall street.

Use the 737 top half of the fuselage mated with the new tooled 707 lower half add body tanks and plumbing. Use same landing gear as the R model. Try and slap some sense into engineers and procurement to use the KISS method. Not too much of a fan of the boomer not having to look at his receivers through his Mark 1 eyeballs.

Boeing should have just have offered new build KC-135 super max's instead of trying to reinvent the wheel, I'm 54 and already told the 20/30 somethings in 135 post dock where I work at Tinker that I will be long retired and buried before the last KC-135 is parked permanently at AMARC.

If you enlist and go into MX, be the best damn Crew Chief you can be, it will help you be a better pilot and officer. If your there as a means to an end, it will be sniffed out almost immediately . Remember your package goes through the MX Sq commander for signatures, if you don't give a damn about us why would we give a damn about you. On a side note, us MX folk love it when we see one of our own jump through the hurdles to pin on pilot wings to get to fly the thing we work on. Myself if would have had better vision in 1980, (nearsighted grizzly bear) I would have went to college instead of enlisting and went for a commission and a pilot slot.

win win

OK guys I'm older than dirt, my time we would get article 15's if we got a severe sunburn and was unable to perform your duty. Now someone mutilates their genitals with elective surgery and puts themselves class C for 2 years, how is that possible.? How is this in the best interest of the military, I was always told the interests of the USAF come first before your personal feelings and wants. Gender dysphoria: the condition of feeling one's emotional and psychological identity as male or female to be opposite to one's biological sex. Now two words stand out in that, emotional and psychological , those are two words that disqualify anybody for service. So my question would be are these trans gendered troops on duty guilty of fraudulent enlistment ?

As a former Flight Chief of 100 Crew Chiefs this has to be welcome relief to today's Officers and NCO's. With Iran ,China, NK ETC ,rattling sabers we need to be mission focused. It was bad enough when straight Amn Snuffy married a stripper and then cried in front of my desk complaining that the other 99 Crew Chiefs know what his wife looks like naked including me. Also you know for sure that POTUS is no politician. All those other guys who ran would have not had the guts to pull the trigger on this.

Got a bud who was a FE in the OKC unit. He told me the airplane was shaking so violently they could not see any instrutments or engine gauges. The A.C. guessed right and shut down the engine. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G530AZ using Baseops Network Forums mobile app

Maybe NK will blackmail SK into capitulating by either surrender or we nuke Seoul. The present SK ruling party is not U.S. friendly. Or threaten SK by asking us to leave the penisula. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G530AZ using Baseops Network Forums mobile app

Where is the right horizontal stab?

Also said it had a manifest of 9 on board.

How does ACC make the decision for which wing to grab a F-16d model from for this jets replacement? Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G530AZ using Baseops Network Forums mobile app

The 138th seems to have a bunch of class A's. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G530AZ using Baseops Network Forums mobile app

There is a reason the C-5's have permanently mounted nose jack pads.

God Dammit!!,But it will be fun to see MX officers tell Watson to change parts that don't need changing so they look good at Wing standup.

Why not? The government has screwed it up so much might as well contract it out.

This!!

I guess we now know for sure what the Mattis doctrine is. "I’m going to plead with you, do not cross us. Because if you do, the survivors will write about what we do here for 10,000 years," James Mattis

Would have been good SAR training if he dumped it in the Potamac and parachuted into S.E. DC or Anacostia. P.J.s going into hostile enviroment especially if they are Republicans. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G530AZ using Baseops Network Forums mobile app

If this guy is on the CAIR shit list he must be doing something right.