Gene, all I can say is your attitude really sucks and that your view of
maintenance types is severely skewed.

An ass reaming isn't "a particular enlisted thing" or even "a maintenance
thing". I can point my finger directly at certain officers (ops and
maintenance alike) who got their own asses reamed out, and even lost
jobs, because of their actions. I remember a pilot in a unit I used to be
with "lose his wings" after he flew an aircraft home from another
location with a known flight control problem. The DO (an ops officer) was
waiting on the ramp when the crew landed and ripped into him right then
and there. I know of other ops types get chewed out and even lose their
job over what they failed to do as well (e.g., not doing enough to
correct a problem).

When all is said and done, you're just another person in this world
destined to die someday just like me and everybody else here. There are
plenty of maintenance types who are not only educated, but may even be
more educated than you and quite a few other officers.

Bottom line is, you've got no class. You could put 100 of yourself
together and it still won't add up to enough class to meet the amount of
class carried by many other members (regardless of rank or what side of
the house they're on) on their own.

"Gene Storey" wrote in
news:Fg6sb.824$6p6.593@okepread03:

"Vee-One" wrote

Enlisted-ops. HA! I'll never forget the reaming that a SMSGT
pro-super gave a A1C who copped an attitude with the SSGT crew chief
about the mess they left on a jet post-flight. He went whined to his
AC about it, and that Captain tried to raise a fuss, instead of doing
the right thing. That type of leadership?

Nope, leadership is always about doing the right thing. Ass reaming
is a particular enlisted thing, and one I never paid much attention
to. I figured they just liked screaming at each other, because they
didn't have a developed vocabulary.

When I flew heavies, the last man off the jet was the mission
commander, and he'd empty the bus if the seat belts weren't in the
same position we found them on pre-flight. God help you if he found
any FOD (coke cans, wrappers, etc), or grease-pen markings left on
your equipment. But this wasn't the kind of stuff that we were paid
to do, or excel in.