Prosuper

Having a buddy who was a B-2 Pro Super and having him explain their processes , since the coatings were a gillion dollars a gallon which they have to scrape off to get access to components which required hazmat protocols. They did not paint until they knew they it was a good jet. Plus boomers better have their A game for AR's, scratching the paint could cause a mission canx.

They probably fly the jet without the low observable paint to save money, when they do it most likely goes into the paint hanger for a week to correct that. We do the same with ours. Come out of major inspections then fly it to get the cobwebs out of it, then to paint hangar for the special coatings then green it up for real world taskings.

Refueling Danish F-16's and over azimuth the boom and snaps the cable, it bull whips the elevators and ruddervators. Down for two weeks.

Never seen behind the blast fence and if it did happen it was usually a TSgt or MSgt, I found sending a young troop who wasn't performing well to the AOR usually shaped him to finally understand what we really did was important. I've seen them transform into reliable assets. Back then a well-respected/feared Chief all he had to say I'm disappointed in you and it would destroy you. If the Chief called, you into the office you know you effd up.

The current batch of E-8's and E-9's, saw it when I retired in 2003 E-7, is the fault of the Flag officers who wanted Senior E's who got there like they did. Didn't want crusty Chiefs anymore behind closed doors telling them that their policy is crap. When I started in 1981, we only had only had a CMSAF and a bunch of senior enlisted advisors, all were Viet Nam vets or actually helped Lemay at the auto hobby shop on Offutt. Saw the change after Desert Storm, the Senior E's who didn't go started to make life hard on the guys who did. The Espirit De Corp after the storm in ops and mx was through the roof and was destroyed by peace dividend. So, the guys who sat on the boards discounted wartime deployed experience and chose special duty, how many duty titles they had, etc. I read Chief Bass's bio, can't figure out what her AFSC was.

During that time period lots of E-8's and 7's who made sure to go class C for dental or carpal tunnel when it was their turn to deploy. Then they got directed they will deploy or get out and marked down on their board scores for never been deployed in their 20 year career. That is when we saw the rash of guys who brought nothing to the fight but making themselves a pain in ass. Spent their time being uniform haircut police and writing each other bronze stars so they can make E-9.

After 3 marriages it just becomes an expensive hobby.

In Clancy's book The Cardinal of the Kremlin, he promoted me from SSgt to SMSgt, then I was crewing C-137's. He came out to the jet for research on how the 89th carried out routine trips to Moscow and why we always stopped in Helsinki in the late 80's.

Since the attack on the pipeline was a successful operation it tells me it was not performed by the Russians. Has the Russian military done anything successfully in modern history unless they are using brute strength and overwhelming numbers against their enemies. I question their abilities to maintain their nuclear arsenal as witnessed by the shape of their ground forces. Also, I wonder if this is Russia's last stand, their demographics are in the toilet, WW2 has them still hurting from losing 80% of the men born in the 1920's.

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTRmXgJfn/, oil man from Oklahoma, straight shooter explains what actually happens in the energy sector.

Last check was $117.00, we bought groceries.

My wife's Great Grandpa rode in both Oklahoma land runs, he was good on a horse, which means they never sold the mineral rights. Still get royalty checks for wells that pump natural gas. I'm wondering if those royalty checks will be going up now.

The 300000 call up is actually a million who want no part of this voluntary war. How do you equip and train a million troops when the original 190000 who went into Ukraine didn't have the required logistics to fight. Will the next wave have WW1 bolt action rifles with WW2 tanks and artillery. I'm guessing it will look like the opening scene from "Enemy at the Gates" moving troops into Stalingrad. Plus with St Petersburg city council accusing Putin of treason, where he got his start in politics, is it wise to give a million men arms who hate your guts.

I wonder if we still had a presence at Manas the Tajiks would be doing this, the Canadians are heavily invested in mining in Kyrgyzstan also.

Hell Ron could have sent them to Vale, Aspen, or any other place where limousine liberals own ritzy properties. How about a ranch in Montana owned by a Hollywood liberal with go away signs everywhere. All these places have already chased away middle-class trade guys who make modern life possible due to exuberant rent and real estate prices.

Something at least stinks on the 7th floor at FBI headquarters in DC.

OK which one guys you decided to take the 3 wire and not a flare a 737 breaking the back of the flt attendant in the rear jump seat. Southwest Airlines flight attendant breaks her back during hard landing in California - CBS News

Wack a mole, who's next?

Colin Powell said it well, If your troops stop bringing you their problems you have failed as a leader. Not surprised this happened at Tinker, story coming off the FB page is about an AWACS AMN who joined the 22 club which was known by his fellow members but not the leadership who went on a hunt looking for him when he didn't show up to work.

When I was at OAMS we got tasked with helping 1st Cav move its birds back to Ft Hood, the whole op was given to C-5 FTU out of Lackland/Kelly the last hurrah of the A models. My boss was from the C-5 community, and he told me that the crews were given marching orders to not to be per diem hounds and get this job done, translation, don't break the jet at Rota. 1st Cav was already way past its rotation and the Army wanted them back in Texas. Jets did break at OAMS but the mx crews performed miracles to keep it going. We did have problems that C-5 crews didn't have up to date ramp survey info and didn't want to taxi to the same spots I had AN-124's and B-747's parked. The only time someone didn't act like a team player when a student loadmaster getting a check ride refused the very last of load of Blackhawks because a tiedown on the bird wasn't painted green. TACC called them to stay the night for them to certify the load, and they bedded down with an infantry company that just came inside the wire.

When I first got qualified to taxi was in the late 80's when stationed at Andrews in the 89th, C-137's, we all had to get signed off by an IP. Due to the fact that the only high powered runup areas was on the hammer head. The old JT3D's took a lot of mx and always had writeups. Plus, it was part of our preflight checklist to taxi them to the VIP spot at the terminal. All our flight engineers were taxi qualified too, after I left in 91 Gen McPeak hated seeing enlisted taxi jets and ordered it stopped.

Just curious if there was ever a prior E to be selected to the T birds or the Blue Angels.

Being a A&P and taxing multiple airframes all Boeings how you can safely taxi with one guy in the cockpit, I was asking the guy next to me are we clear always. Most damage done on airliners is done at the gate or the pushback or taxi away from the terminal. It's great it gives a bunch of us mechanics a bunch of OT but it also means some guy's career just destroyed.

The Stearman is cheaper to operate and maintain.

I'm guessing the Russians have a pretty lax BMI measurement. Obese retired Russian general called to fight in Ukraine: report (nypost.com)