"B2431" wrote in message
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From: Chad Irby
Date: 12/7/2003 2:30 AM Central Standard Time
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In article ,
"David Hartung" wrote:

Much of this applies to any maintenance troop!

Hell, I got 28, and I was just an ECM troop...

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cirby at cfl.rr.com


I got most of them. There was this great fiasco called POMO where some
specialist were "crew chief qualified" which simply meant crew chiefs got
chow
breaks while we recovered/launched their jets.

I was at Luke in 1976-77 when they were doing the POMO tests, I was on an F4
Load crew so I ws not involved, but by the time I got back from Guam, all of
TAC had gone POMO, COMO, or whatever they called it. The good news was that
in our unit(310 AMU), weapons folks seldom got asked to do more than walk
the occasional wing.

On the plus side the first time I recovered an early return not one
specialist
came to help yet almost every crewchief on the line did.

The only place I did launch an recovery was at Sembach in the last several
months before the OV10s left. On day my airplane was on the taxiway and the
flight Chief sent someone else out to recover it. When I got to the shack he
proceeded to chew me out aver something my guys supposedly hadn't done. As
soon as he got me good and mad, he threw a set of Tech stripes at me and
congratulated me!G It was the best butt chewing I eve got!