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Not trying to be argumentative, but just finished talking to my next
door neighbor who completed his check ride today. He finished only his BMC and still has another 2-3 months of training with the 34th before they will consider him CMR. I lived this problem for a year as one of the maintenance officers for the 9th. It was an absolute fight to provide enough sorties to keep the overmanned copilots from regressing. Throw in upgrades it was tough. Even when we had the highest ever FMC rate for the Bone. Big of the problem was that our FTU got so backed up that we had to cut down the syllabus and fly weekends to get caught up. All this did was to push the problem on to the combat squadrons. Cheers, Michael Kelly, Bone Maintainer Hmm, I'll take your word for it, but I know that at one point (IIRC around 2000) the Bone FTU was graduating FMC crews, it was the reason why the BUFF FTU had to begin doing it. Maybe the cut back in syllabus was the reason they stopped doing it? Wonder if the BUFF FTU could get away with the same excuse? BUFDRVR "Stay on the bomb run boys, I'm gonna get those bomb doors open if it harelips everyone on Bear Creek" |
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Howard Berkowitz wrote:
Come to think of it, didn't the Argentinians use S-2's for maritime surveillance and possibly targeting in the Falklands campaign? ISTR their carrier had them as well as A-4's. Yes. They appear to have had a track on the British carriers but lost it before they could get organized for a strike (possibly compounded by weather conditions; acounts are very confused and I haven't yet straightened it out to my satisfaction.) -- Tom Schoene Replace "invalid" with "net" to e-mail "Our country, right or wrong. When right, to be kept right, when wrong to be put right." - Senator Carl Schurz, 1872 |
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