Aircraft maintainers

Where you headed to?

 

Turkey for a remote, then Travis. But I put on master... So that'll change what I do in Turkey. Then I'll try to get into the kc-46 office at Travis when I get there.

 

cool buy some huglu's when you get to turkey. Over and under's I never got the chance to go there but I heard lots of people buy the shotguns there cheap and send them home.

 

Can't anymore. Base in locked down since the failed coup last year.

 

ah...that sucks in a way. Prob safer that way.

 

I was a "AMT" (airborne maint. tech.) as a crewmember on the 6 original RC135M's waaay back in 70-71 with the 6990th Security Sqrdn at Kadena. We flew the hell out of those 6 planes -- guess what --they all 6 are still flying today as RC13W's. (131,32, 34, 35, 38, and 39) I had 32 Combat missions -near Hanoi and Northern Laos on these planes in about 16 months. This is thanks to the great ground support people. As far as anyone saying were not maintainers -- we worked on the black boxes on the ground as well.
I started out as a B52 (C's and D's) ECM tech at Ellsworth SD

 

My FTD class was in Ellsworth. Glad I wasnt stationed there

 

What is "FTD"? -- sorry for my ignorance

 

Field Training Detachment. It was the follow-on training after Tech school, before we hit the flightline.

 

That place --Ellsworth and Rapid City can/does have all the extremes of Mo weather just worse
Once (long time ago) came home (MO.) on leave went water skiing on Lake of the Ozarks on Memorial Day --went back to Ells -- had 8 inches of wet snow on June 8th or 9th. Had hailstones as big as baseballs once and one morning of -30 with 40mph winds. I was out on the flightline at -20 --they let it "warm" up a little before sending us out to work on the ECM gear on the 52's. The crazy thing was the radical changes from one day till the next

 

yeah we were there 3 months nov-jan. It was nice one day, the rest of the time it was cold or snowed, or was windy! Was there a few other times tdy and it was either sweltering hot or snowing.

 

HH-60M UH-60A/L Army CW3 Maintenance Test Pilot Montana Tons of respect for my maintainers usually right there with them turning wrenches as much as I can. Was sheetmetal when I was enlisted E-5. Me in the green tshirt laughing at one of the crew chiefs as usual doing something outrageous!

 

Hey everyone, I haven't looked all the way through this thread yet but are there any other 47 mechanics in here? I've been in the guard about 5 years now and a federal technician for about 1.5 years working on Chinooks.

I got pretty relevant plates to my occupation

 

Retired engine troop, USAF. Spent time on A-10, B-1, B-2, C-17, F-16, F-22 and T-38. Been all over, sandbox to Antarctica. Plenty of interesting stories from blowing over plastic shithouses with a weapons troop inside during engine run, borrowing practice dummy’s from firehouse—payback prank and a long one, dubauchery on the Korean Peninsula and on. More importantly, we broke a bunch of production and quality records and many firsts. Cheers aircraft mx brethren!

 

where were you on B1?

 

Edwards, I worked in shop.

 

Was TDY there once back in 97.