What Have You Done To Your 3rd Gen Today?

I don’t care for tossing patches on my headliner or carpet, but I took a bunch of my organizational/job patches from my USAF missileer/nuclear enterprise days that had been sitting for years in my filing cabinet & did this:

 

Very cool!

 

FINALLY Finished the 3in OME lift with axle shims (3 degrees) and brand new SPC Uppers. All the TRD Offroad parts i have listed for sale on here too. Oh and I also got new tires. Bridgestone Dueler AT3 Revos.

 

I use mine for a cutting board every time I go out, it’s friggin awesome having so much flat surface now. They are expensive… I did the red one so I could see shit on it especially at night. I thought the cup holders would be to shallow but they work great

 

There is a lot of competition out there now.
Here is a great Canadian made product.
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Nice, I like the Bhagavad gita/Oppenheimer quote.

 

Nice.

 

It’s ubiquitous in the nuclear community, that’s for sure.

 

My friend leads a team that arms bombers with nukes at Minot afb, I'll have to ask him if his patches share that in common.

 

I suppose I’ll see if I end up using it as a cutting board, one never knows. My Yeti has a divider/cutting board, so I use that if need be. I don’t often bring items that need much prep when camping, but I’ll never complain about an item that has legit multiple uses even if I don’t often utilize some of them.

 

Hopefully he wasn’t on the bomb crew that mistakenly uploaded live nukes on the 52 that the flight crew then transported unknowingly from Minot to Barksdale, where the 52 sat on the flightline unguarded for a day. That one was a *little* controversial. The president & joint chiefs aren’t very happy when they get a call about multiple nuclear weapons going unaccounted for and being unsecured for 36 hours…

5th Bomb Wing is host wing @ Minot, they fly B-52s. I was in the tenant wing there, the 91st Missile Wing, in the 91st OMMS, the 740th Missile Squadron & the 91st MXS. We represent 2 legs of the doctrine of nuclear triad.

Kelly Flinn was the big 5th Bomb Wing newsmaker when I was pulling duty up there.

5th Bomb Wing organizational patch is this guy. KIAI O KA LEWA = Guardians of the Upper Realm

 

Washed

 

Wow, what a fiasco! Well to be more specific, he was a sergeant at Minot for 4 years 2013-2017 then went to Vandenburg, actually just made it back to Minot for another 4 a few weeks ago. I hope he had nothing to do with it, for his sake.

They almost lost him because after 8 years working his job they were going to switch him to ICBMs which he had no experience with but once he started making his exit plans they found him his old job back in Minot.

 

Lol. I never understood cup holders in the tailgate. It’s not like it’s going anywhere and then What if I want to put my beer 2 inches to the right?

 

The nuke incident happened in 2007, so likely before he ever was there. I’d been gone for nearly 10 yrs by then, thankfully. The nuclear enterprise is super intensive when things are going very well- imagine how awful things would be after that incident. The scrutiny, the demands, the repercussions would be absolutely insane, but they should be after such an egregious oversight. It obviously bled over into the ICBM community too, so many of my old colleagues had to pay for the transgression of an entirely different unit in an entirely different command.

Sounds like he was more than a bomb loader, likely a Missile & Space Systems Elec Journeyman, which is highly technical. ICBM & ACM/SRAM/ALCM(ACM/SRAM/ALCM = Advanced Cruise Missile/Air Launched Cruise Missile/Short Range Attack Missile, which are weapons B-52s carry or have carried) is essentially the same career field(2M0X1A & 2M0X1B - A denotes ICBM, B denotes ACM/SRAM/ALCM), and the initial training is identical. While it didn’t happen much during my time, over the last 25 yrs or so there has been a fair amount of transfer of personnel between the ICBM community & the air launched community. I was 2M0X1A.

You mentioned Vandenberg AFB, which is where we do our ICBM test launches. Other than for tech training, I’m unaware of a reason why an air launch guy would be needed at Vandy unless he was being brought into the ICBM community.

 

Reminds me of the time when someone accidentally set a truck on fire with a burrito wrapper in the storage yard and they took away our frozen burrito privileges.

 

Did it ever get reinstated?

 

Thanks for all the interesting info, but I find myself at the end of it not knowing enough to speak any more intelligently about his role at the bases lol. I know he mainly teaches, and is apparently important enough for them to work to make a place for him rather than lose him.

 

not sure. I PCSed out during the ban.

 

Still on! Prep work pays off.