Got a good laugh out of the OP's list....
Stories from my time as Maintainer on F-111s
During a Training Exercise in December.
Told to go set in our shelter, in the middle of a Down pour! Cannon AFB NM has No shelters!
Story told from other maintainers. Weapon System Operator (WSO) kept complaining about his helmet had no
sound. (Repeated write up!) Avionics Tech. responding took Big screwdriver and climbed up to WSO. Saw what he suspected. Whacked the WSO upside the head a couple times and plugged in his helmet! The told him to have his helmet checked out!
Told by supervision to Cannibalise a 50 pin connector from one Jet to fix another. Avionics argued that this was not a good idea. Told to do it anyway. Upon removing from Can jet locking mech. on connector failed. Told supervision bad news. And where would they like us to get another?
They decided not to take another connector!
In its infinite wisdom in the Early 90s the USAF decided to go with Street numbers on buildings instead of building numbers. Which lead to the following.
While driving the Avionics truck on Mid shift (3rd shift), saw a dog/coyote running around by the flight line.
I Called Maintenance Control to have animal control come catch it before it got onto flight line.
MOC called back and ask what building is it by?
I told them the Name of the building, but nothing I had gave me building numbers. And the Numbers had just been all Removed from the corners of the buildings.
MOC ask: Can you give me a building number.
No; Some Idiot just took all the numbers off the buildings.
With in a week all buildings had thier numbers back!
