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Offline bustr

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Re: It’s not another 737 down, but.....
« Reply #15 on: June 03, 2019, 05:48:45 PM »
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Strike one for the missile load crew.

Is there any story to what happened with these gents after the cause was discovered?
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Re: It’s not another 737 down, but.....
« Reply #16 on: June 03, 2019, 06:26:25 PM »
Is there any story to what happened with these gents after the cause was discovered?

We never heard anything but, no doubt there was some serious retraining and supervision the next time they put one together and loaded it.



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Re: It’s not another 737 down, but.....
« Reply #17 on: June 03, 2019, 07:40:29 PM »
Great read. LOL
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Re: It’s not another 737 down, but.....
« Reply #18 on: June 03, 2019, 08:06:38 PM »
That really was great!

Were you assigned to wash two Philippinos' underwear though?
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Re: It’s not another 737 down, but.....
« Reply #19 on: June 03, 2019, 08:44:06 PM »
That really was great!

Were you assigned to wash two Philippinos' underwear though?

Wait.... isn't that the backseater's job?
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Re: It’s not another 737 down, but.....
« Reply #20 on: June 03, 2019, 08:53:15 PM »
We never heard anything but, no doubt there was some serious retraining and supervision the next time they put one together and loaded it.


I thought you said you were in the Air Force?

Those people were promoted.  They recently retired as bird colonels in charge of munitions.

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Re: It’s not another 737 down, but.....
« Reply #21 on: June 03, 2019, 09:09:03 PM »
Wait.... isn't that the backseater's job?

It's a fine line between delegation and passing the buck ;)
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Re: It’s not another 737 down, but.....
« Reply #22 on: June 03, 2019, 09:46:24 PM »
That really was great!

Were you assigned to wash two Philippinos' underwear though?

They were miles off shore in the ocean.  Surely, they washed their own skivvies. If, they had any on.



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Re: It’s not another 737 down, but.....
« Reply #23 on: June 03, 2019, 09:47:51 PM »

I thought you said you were in the Air Force?

Those people were promoted.  They recently retired as bird colonels in charge of munitions.

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Hooter and I didn't care who got in trouble, as long as it wasn't us.  And yes, they more than likely got promoted to a higher level where they couldn’t screw that up again.  Something else, yes.  But, not that.
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Re: It’s not another 737 down, but.....
« Reply #24 on: June 03, 2019, 11:05:16 PM »
Great story, loved the part about guilty until proven innocent.  :rofl
That seems to be the rule when it comes to the Air Force when one
of their toys gets broken.

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Re: It’s not another 737 down, but.....
« Reply #25 on: June 03, 2019, 11:37:34 PM »
Great story, loved the part about guilty until proven innocent.  :rofl
That seems to be the rule when it comes to the Air Force when one
of their toys gets broken.


Yep!  It’s always “Who touched it last?”   :bolt:



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Re: It’s not another 737 down, but.....
« Reply #26 on: June 04, 2019, 12:11:38 PM »
Yep!  It’s always “Who touched it last?”   :bolt:

Always Head Hunting. Heaven forbid it be mechanical error or material deficiency.


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Re: It’s not another 737 down, but.....
« Reply #27 on: June 04, 2019, 12:26:01 PM »
Always Head Hunting. Heaven forbid it be mechanical error or material deficiency.


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Indeed.  In this case, it was a simple lack of attention to detail. 



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Re: It’s not another 737 down, but.....
« Reply #28 on: June 04, 2019, 04:42:07 PM »
Indeed.  In this case, it was a simple lack of attention to detail.

Not IDIOT PROOF enough   :D
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Re: It’s not another 737 down, but.....
« Reply #29 on: June 05, 2019, 12:50:25 PM »
"For Want of a Nail" the castle fell and the war was lost.
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This is like the old joke that voters are harsher to their beer brewer if he has an outage, than their politicians after raising their taxes. Death and taxes are certain but, fun and sex is only now.