"Yama" wrote

My memory is fuzzy so I dug out the original article. Person in question
was
not a pilot but a Finnish mechanic. Here's his exact words (my
translation):
"In Finnish Air Force mechanics need a long and throught training, but in
USA much of the technical work is done by recruit with a couple of weeks
theoretic training. -Maybe that's why Americans sometimes had hard time to
grasp that we at rank of Lieutenant still actually do something to the
aircraft." Obviously I cannot personally verify how accurate his
description
is.

If the LT's are fixing the jets, what are the lower level NCO's and
privates/airmen doing?

Pete