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When is the 2nd flight? Will they bring the gear up?I read that they relied heavily on the CAF FiFi's mx/ops crew for advice and getting their own crew dogs type rated. Looking forward to seeing both B-29's in formation.

Thinking long term here, if we lose Incirlik our next move is to fully support the Peshmerga Kurds militarily and economically. The only reason this has not happened is because we want to keep using Incirlik. I also think that is the least of Erdogon worries is us or the Kurds. Putin will not be happy having his Black Sea fleet and oil tankers not being able to use the Bosphorus Strait. The next question after that, does NATO honor it's treaty obligations if Turkey and Russia lock horns.

Incirlik was my second home in the 90's, I wonder if the Turks will make a play and confiscate our equipment there. Just getting parts to fix aircraft and dealing with Turkish customs takes days. They have a nasty habit of when you turn in a vehicle to the motor pool for inspection they condemn it , repaint it, then put Turkish AF reg numbers on it. Had to endure 2 strikes by the on base Turkish workers which closed down all base services. I imagine they are going through that now. I hope Erdogon remembers the majority of his Air Force has to have USAF logistics to keep flying.

Do you think if O-6's are disobeying CSAF due to the fact that is the way they made O-6?

Bird Strike?

A Crew Chief more eloquent than myself wrote this and has been making the rounds. I remember her as an love hate relationship scooping snow off her at K.I. Sawyer.

Dude, still turning wrenches as a civilian, and management sucks out on this side too. If your argument held water I imagine there would be a lot of dead MX officers now. Easiest way to get rid of one is just follow the mx manual and safety rules to the letter and we won't meet a flying schedule or revenue flight. If your icon is correct all you had to do is show up to a backshop or flight line and production stopped. I loved answering QA reports for Amn Snuffy wearing a floppy hat on the flight line with no engines running high noon in the desert and Amn Snuffy just got NJP for 3rd degree sunburn on top of his bald head by working his ass off. You might have been part of the problem. Yes I liked it better when we were under Op's instead of a bunch of spread sheet accountants.

They're shooting there own officers now. I read about toxic leadership but this is getting out of hand . I imagine on base concealed carry is now been buried.

Navy pals on the E-6 are always scraping the inboard pods.

Looking at McDew's bio, at least you can say is that he knows the stark terror of getting a heavy KC-135A using water injection off the ground being assigned as an company grade to Loring and Castle.

My favorite Lori (Gen Robinson) moment, In a former job I was taking care of some transit F-15's from Eglin RONing at KTIK. I had the lead plane which had an O-6 flying it. As soon as I had it shut down and the pilot debriefed a very attractive ( 552 ACW CC) woman wearing flip flops and Daisy dukes comes up and gives a very warm welcome to the O-6. Needless to say that F-15 was the farthest thing from the mind of that pilot. Maybe it's time we had an non pilot in charge, if it's her I'm sure at the end of tenure when she retires she will be successful as with every other job she held.

Maybe it will have the HAL 2000, how about a nice game of chess?

Just to put a bad OPR in perspective , it could be worse, came across this about North Korean officers. https://video.foxnews.com/v/4752874407001/expert-kim-jong-un-may-have-gone-too-far/?playlist_id=trending#sp=show-clips Seems many top officers have met their demise of pissing off the top guy, one even executed by an anti-aircraft gun. Not much to look forward over there out of uniform.

I was a C-137 FCC in the 89th MAW then, just got back from Geneva with SEC State James Baker to give diplomacy one last chance, got back to my apartment to watch Bernard Shaw report live from Baghdad when the bombing started.

Well it could be a cost factor also, its a lot cheaper to fly a mud hen with tanker support than a B-1. See a bunch a B-1's sitting here at KTIK in different sorts of disrepair.

I endured them for 23 years and their salute to Disney in the AOR, it's a rite of passage, embrace the suck and quit your whining. You could be the poor bastard AMC crew dog that has to schlep their ass across the globe.

As a retired MSgt I like the idea of WO's. When I was active I was totally not competitive for E-8,9 since my career path kept me on the flightline for 23 years. Being a MSgt in my position with a chance to move into WO ranks would be very tempting. Just wondering what the age cutoff would be or would they just offering to first termers to keep the the E-8's and E-9's placated.

I wonder if a 4 star's who pass on will be included in this, I'll be dead so I wont give a shit but it will be a slap in the face to my family. Maybe they could get the funds to honor by dropping a few bands, TIB, and General officers quarters remodel. https://wjhl.com/2015/12/15/21-gun-salute-eliminated-from-air-force-funerals-due-to-lack-of-funding-personnel/?utm_content=bufferaef77&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer

I guess this will be a new CBT for the more sensitive AF members. https://youtu.be/Sz0o9clVQu8

sums it up.

At least we will know if this blows up into a shit storm we will all know both sides were both fill everybody up with B.S.. Math doesn't lie. https://motherboard.vice.com/read/belgian-physicists-calculate-that-everyone-is-lying-about-the-downed-russian-jet

Or you can apply here. https://www.news9.com/story/28039187/a-10-warthog-to-take-on-oklahomas-thunderstorms

It has been like this since the draw down after Desert Storm, https://www.airforcetimes.com/story/military/2015/11/02/weary-maintainers-struggle-keep-fleet-combat-ready/74870766/