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That escalated quickly. Hope people thought through the transition better than we have the last couple times. Good work by the 160th.

All is well, thank you so much! 2 year old granddaughter had open heart surgery on a Thursday morning. She was skipping out of the hospital by noon Sunday. Modern medicine is a miracle!

Looks like Operation Just Cause 2.0 has officially kicked off.

I remember seeing that when I was in OGV. The best part was the CVR recording the idiots in the cockpit making fun of the kid at the firebottle for not having being able to see due to no one having a flashlight.

Except the AIB points out the dude in the cockpit couldn't have seen the guy by the CRL on the right side of the jet. However, they could've activated the CRL via their laptop, which was under the jet on the ground, on the wrong TO checklist (APU start) to the maintenance they were doing. Since their laptop could actuate the CRL, there was literally no reason why the guy was in the cockpit doing it via the MFD.

Hard to prosecute a case if all the required documentation that was meticulously maintained was mysteriously stolen.

I guess you're just of superior character when compared to myself. Good luck!

Way back in the day at a PACAF base, we were getting ORE'd to death after coming back from having kicked off OIF. 4 months straight of surge for a week, fix over the weekend, then right into a week long phase 1/2. Rinse and repeat. ORI rolls around and MX/OPS leadership was on our ass for writeups received during generation phase so everyone went out and during ORI generation did our job to the letter of the TO. 2 jets generated. I think there were 5 horizontal stab changes and 2 vert changes just in our squadron. WG CC called all the crew chiefs in to talk. We got to vent for a bit and he actually made some shit happen. We got to by name request a few more 7 levels and they diverted a bunch of 3/5 levels. They preach by the book but don't want it by the book. Doesn't take too much of a leap to get into fatal consequence level when you veer too far from the book though. Alot of common sense shit that doesn't get done but you get by without reaping the effects. It'll get you eventually.

I did pull for UF years ago....M2 and several really good friends went there, plus I pull for Florida schools over scrubs like Bama, Auburn and Neutered Lame.

After an incident like this MX will get anal probing. Back in the 90's the F-15 had a known discrepancy in the tech order on how to rig the stabilators, these were rigged backwards, and pilot didn't notice it until he tried to takeoff from Spangdahlem, it was a fatal mistake. The following actions where the tech data was finally fixed and maintenance personnel whose name was in the 781 were court martialed, later one committed suicide and the MXG guys refused to sign any red X off in the forms because the witch hunt that was going on. The mission of that wing slammed to a stop because mx folks were in full career preservation mode and screw the sortie count. I bet JBERS will go through some painful soul searching, lives destroyed, careers scuttled, MX actions going into slow crawl mode. Mueller v. US Dept. of Air Force, 63 F. Supp. 2d 738 (E.D. Va. 1999) :: Justia PLACING BLAME AT ANY COST | TIME

Fox NewsSomali daycare in Minnesota broken into, key documents st...A Somali-run daycare in Minneapolis was allegedly broken into amid ongoing fraud investigations. Important employee and child documents reportedly missing. Shouldn't we feel bad for these poor immigrants just trying to make a life? And, on top of that, they were robbed!!! Because of all the cash and valuables stored at a daycare...a perfectly normal place to break into.

Yeah, their defense looks stout. I'd root for Miami if my wife went there, but she didn't. Would you ever root for the gators? I think it'd be pretty awesome if Indiana wins personally. However, whoever wins certainly deserves it with how many games are played now.

I did a CDI once for a group of maintainers who had sucked up the engine covers into the engines of a kc-135 during an engine run at night. This was a group of five maintainers, all of whom had forgotten to bring a flashlight, and so instead of either finding a light source or just walking up to the engine to see if they were covered, they just skipped every procedure and rule to prevent this mishap fired them up. Sadly this is completely believable. I hope he went quick.

Of course he wouldn’t. Thought you had nothing to hide Dan?

My wife, who graduated from FSU was pulling for Miami just like I did for FSU like when they were unjustly left out. Oh well haters gonna hate...hope it keeps you warm at night... Of the remaining four I will be happy if any one of them wins but Oregon. Miami's defense was swarming and violent at the point of attack. Indiana is a freaking machine. Ole Miss is a Cinderella story and F@ck Lane Kiffin.

Beyond violation of TO procedures, voice comm isn’t required/a factor here. This is all avoided by guy in cockpit not touching anything until someone on ground gives him the thumbs up to do so (and that guy has 1. visually cleared the area surrounding moving parts and 2. Has signaled to others what’s about to happen so they don’t go into any “danger areas.”) So this is a major, double fuck up.

Crenshaw and Ryan pod isn't happening. Crenshaw wouldn't sign the release that all Ryan's guests have signed since the very early days of starting his podcast. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eszt7iyjvX0

In my experience, if power is on and hydraulics are powered, headset communication was used.

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Didn't digest the whole report, but this bit from the Executive Summary seems to sum it up. TO guidance is to use the PMA (a laptop hooked into the aircraft) to actuate the launch rail. Instead, the team lead sat in the cockpit and used the cockpit controls (in violation of TO guidance). When sitting in the cockpit, there is poor visibility to the weapons bay. There was some confusion amongst the team members, and the launch rail was retracted by the maintainer in the cockpit while another maintainer had his head in the way. That poor soul had their head fatally crushed. Maybe. I want to know more about how JBER personnel got to the point where they were actuating the launch rail from the cockpit instead of the laptop, in violation of TO guidance. The report indicates this was something that was "routine" at JBER, so it would be interesting to know how that came about. Sounds like classic "normalization of deviance" going on. Contributing, but they were doing this work in a hangar, with the APU running. So couldn't communicate verbally due to the noise, and had to rely on hand signals. Maybe I'm showing my ignorance of these things, but is that normal? Don't you typically have power in the hangar you can hook up to, or other ways to avoid running the APU?

Incredibly sad and entirely preventable. Someone needs to be charged with manslaughter.

Eventually you realize that the entire organizational pressure to sacrifice is driven by nothing more than the unquenchable need for promotion and power of those working their way up towards the top. It's been a long fucking time since anything we were doing in the military actually mattered from the perspective of defending the Homeland. Sure, small operations here and there, but nothing that justifies the institutional insanity that everyone experienced while they were in. It's just a bunch of losers who desperately want to be generals. Even the "good dudes." Your personal and family life was meaningless to them because they didn't even care about their own. Flag officers. I still think there were some (rare) good O-6s.

Must’ve missed your second paragraph initially. I pray all is well for your family.