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Thats my site manager, been in mx since 1980.

Just trying to be logical but would you want your load or any crew position to be up to snuff before he got to the AOR than find out you have a problem down range? Lately been getting a deer in the headlights response when we tell them we have a upload of Blackhawks.

Got a Sierra hotel ATOC here that have everything ready to go before any grey tail shows up, of course everything goes to crap when a SRA load questions everything the MSgt loadplanner hands him. It is getting preferable just to tender stuff out and let Ivan the crazy IL-76 pilot have it with no questions asked and a whole lot cheaper.

Yes Dover is all M models but there is a B out in the system that has the Dover tail flash on it, it was the last B to leave Dover. Nothing sadder to see a M empty flying somewhere just for crew rest. Why are Loadmasters getting check rides in the AOR, taking 6 hours which only should take a hour Mogging out a ramp putting others in a holding pattern, I'm getting to the point I hate the sight of that damn plane.

There was the the E-10 a 767-400 that at least the airframe was built to replace the E-3 and E-8 into one airframe. Of course the money dried up, at least the R&D has already been done if the USAF wants to put a AWACS in a 737 with Australia and Turkey already taking delievery of 737 AEW&C platforms. There is not huge supply of 707 parts out there, most structure parts have to be made from scratch at OC/ALC in one of those water jet milling machines.

What happened to the JT8D conversion? Those JT3D's make a E-3 TF-33-P-100 almost look modern and up to date.

Got a bud in NATO AWACS who told me just ten are slated for it for now, it more or less still has the same flight director and instrutments from when the first one was delivered in 1977. The engineers panel has never been upgraded except for the generator oil temp gauges. I am curious on how they are going to incorporate the the old engine technology TF-33's were everything runs of pitot air or hyromechanically and with nothing electronic on that engine into the glass cockpit. They have done this with the E-6 TACOMO's but they have modern CFM -56 engines

At least the F-16 had its canopy closed.

Just a bit of helpful advice from a guy who used to fix and fly on E-3's for 13 years. At crew show at the jet bring your own cream and sugar for coffee and handiwipes/hand sanitzer to clean your O2 mask. Dont ask the crew chief for any of this because he will be busy fixing one of your guys chairs that they just broke. Mx does maintenance not catering. Have some common courtesy for your fellow female crew dawgs and not unleash a out of control fire hose in the lavatory. Also learn early that the flight deck will never like you and if you whine more that means more transitions(practice takeoffs and landings) at the end of a 8 hour sortie back a Tinker, their evil like that.

You think he would have done something before leaving Op's https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OSsf0n4eBk

My first response who gives a shit about maintainers, then I thought if it is happening on the ground then lets get every pointy head mfer out there to figure this thing out. Another thought, lets get somebody out there who has never worked for Lockheed/Martin and never will to fix this thing and give us an honest account. Doesnt the Super Hornet and Strike Eagle have the same system? I've worked on C-140's and C-5's both Lockheed products, the biggest MX POS's I've ever seen, Make's the B-52 look easy to fix. Why in the world did big blue think they could make a fighter worth a shit, Kelly Johnson would have never been hired by Lockheed today. The way LM does business its like they a welfare mom from hell. Oh I forgot they did do the C130 right but still have a crappy batting avg.. .

I guess he finally stopped in Brooklyn, love that song.

Sounds like another BSM criteria thread in the making.

Sometimes through out my career I sometime wondered if I had a tat on my head that read Ef me.

Great way to torture a dog who loves to play fetch. I wonder if Don Draper would have made an ad like that?

If you think about it, when if ever we get into a no crap shooting war with a opponent with a competent, well trained and equipped Air Force maximum efforts like this would be common place. Back in the 80's we did this regularly in USAFE with over 100 jets in the air just from one A-10 wing. Eldorado Canyon was masked by a exercise of Upper Heyford and Lakenheath launching maximum EF/F-111's sorties.

LGBT support group?

Follow the money and see who pitched this to the AF, I bet you it was somebody who used to wear a uniform and worked in logistics.

What a way to screw up a Banner mission.

Whats amazing that you can find 69 crews and enough MX troops to launch that many at a stateside base if your considering all the non mission focused factors such as DNIF flyers, medical appointments, and mandatory training and all the other things leadership does not have to deal with outside the AOR.

Getting ready for hurricane evacuation season. I hope they have enough for next days go's.

It seems that senior leadership is more concerned about the troops getting fed up with their Afghan counterparts. https://www.airforcetimes.com/news/2012/02/ap-allen-troops-not-time-revenge-022412/

Glad everyone got out, if its a old E model I doubt they will even attempt to fix it. Just wondering if old wiring caused it.

Back in the early 80's my squadron got the best OMS in USAFE award at EGUN every year I was station there, we were the only OMS (Organizational Mx SQ) in USAFE.

Been coming to SWA since 1981, I'll give this a 2, how many remember when a female LT was in town with her SMSgt in Daharan, a old man came up and stabbed her, she lived but the Saudi police did not arrest the old man. Why? Because she was with a man who was not her husband nor brother or father which in accordance with Sharia it is totally acceptable. Don't know if she was wearing a abaya. Had a female troop feminist who insisted that she be allowed to drive in downtown Riyahd who got pulled over by a Suadi cop and created a incident.