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Wonder if Jack Roush has been cleared to fly again?

Being on non AMC big jets SAC/TAC/ACC it was a job for the Crew Chief to do the shit job, had a hose break on me once at Nellis and took a shower in the shit and my AC asked me why I was so pissed off about. I said nothing sir and I gave him a bear hug then went over to the fire dept to hose off,shower and change. For the rated members of this forum be glad that God his given you the abilities,eyesight,and station in life to do what you do. I close on the note that for lav equiped acft crew members be thankful somebody does this job and think how a acft smells when it is not done in a timely manner and allowed to bake in the desert sun in a closed up acft. On the plus side on the civilian end this job if own the equipment and have a contract at a airport it is almost a license to print money, one time in Geneva had to pay the guy over $1200 US to dump my 4 lavatories on a C-137.

Having not been there since 2002 it just seems they want their freedom to be given to them and they don't want to bad enough to fight for it or they don't understand the concept of what being free is. Of course all the work that has gone on there to build infrasture,schools, and a govt will be for nothing when the Farm animal fornicating Taliban take over again. Maybe the POTUS should offer to any Afghan woman refugee imigration status and take them home with us when the last US troops and diplomats leave when Kabul is surrounded by Taliban and Karzai is dead or living in Paris with some foreign aid or Opium money. We never learn. Hopefully we kill as many Taliban as possible before we leave.

Its better to celebrate of how he lived than mourn how he died.

That makes me feel ill.

The chick or the dude? DADT

A Brits POV

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/161837-analyst-military-bands-to-cost-dod-50b-in-50-years There are more guys in military bands than the foreign service.

Actually if you listen to Icelandics speak that is to believed what the Vikings actual language and their direct decendents, Norwegians can't understand them or translate Icelandic for you. But the Norwegians sure gave the Wehrmacht fits.

I remember all those movies to scare the crap out of the new Airmen that it took almost by gunpoint to make them service LOX on the acft my self included. After a while you were using it to cool down a 6 pack in the drain pain and throwing bugs and frogs into the pan just to see them shatter. I have a few burns on wrists and parts of my neck from splashes from it. I still service LOX 30 years later from the first time I did for my present contract job. You learn to always respect it but I don't fear it anymore. There are parts of the LOX system I can't stand, it is almost impossible to service in rainy wet weather because everything freezes up, every LOX convertor is different on how it services per tail no. not MDS. Had to reseat a few build up and vent valves with a screw driver to seat it and keep from venting so it will build pressure. Plus don't ever ever deplete a system down to zero pressure on the system, it requires a hot purge of the entire system to evaporate any moisture in the system. The only thing that sticks out to me about the OBOGS is what caused that Air Florida crash in the Everglades back in the 80's.

Had to replace a few booms after they were used as a tow strap to get a sick fighter home, I remember the voice of a very concerned A-6 guy we dragged into Lajes when his left wing tank had a structural failure and pouring out gas in the middle of the Atlantic. Had a bud drag a F-4 into Keflavik with a dead engine in a February, bailing in the North Atlantic in February is suicide even with a poopy suit on.

F-15E's, F-18E,F,G also.

Probably would have saved a million a jet by just installing a old fashioned 5 liter LOX convertor.

I thought that the slowest tanker a A-10 could catch up with is the right tanker.

I will celebrate when I no longer have to take off my shoes and get groped when I go to the airport. He was just one guy in a worldwide network, this ain't over.

That's a good question, who's required to carry helmets?

As with the Buff's 59th anniversary I find it amazing how much aviation changed in 10 years between the Doolittle raid and the B-52's first flight.

I'm just surprised they found enough qualified mx females to do this pr stunt. If anything went wrong did they have a all female CSAR on standby?

Shocked to see a Caravan on its back.

I always loved how they indexed those Salty Nation exercises, your base gets killed by a nuke and the inspector is asking why you are not donning your gas mask after the impact was less than a 100 yards from your position. You or your buddys probably strafed me a couple of times at EGUN between 84 to 86 along with the odd F-111.

Wow a A-10 that actually had to slow down to AR or a Tanker perfectly suited to AR A-10's. Remember a few A-10 drags across the pond in a KC-135A on how much airspeed we had to bleed to AR hogs then visa versa when I crewed KC-135Q's on how much slower the SR-71 had to go when we were in a shallow dive to pick up airspeed. Great picture!

Didn't the Marines get the call to grab Scott O'Grady out of Serbia during Op Allied Force too?

Looking at the footage it appears to be this tail no. https://www.airliners.net/photo/USA---Air/McDonnell-Douglas-F-15E/1449488/L/ I remember this being our nightmare scenario during ONW and OSW, I don't think we ever lost a jet during that time but we took the CSAR training day pretty seriously. I hope this is not a bad omen.

Now thats a FOD hazard from hell, I wonder if underneath the runway is compromised.

Facebooking with friends at Yokota , they are restricted to base and they have taken commercial diverts due to a airport up north disabled. He told me everybody is safe.