Oh boy, yeah, all that stuff's way gone. The only ECM stuff we really work
on any more is ALQ 99s, the EA-6B pods. At least that's all I know about.
The ECM shop was very hush-hush and we never found out much about what went
on in there. All I know is there are four locks to get through before you
could get into that shop :-|. I don't know how the America was set up but we
had 10 shops + cal lab, Shop 1 is generators, 2 is FLIR/ATFLIR, 3 is
strike/ECM, 4 is 2M/cable repair, 5 is ATE (automated test equipment), 6 is
the AE (aviation electrician's mates, wires/power generation) shop, 7 is
RADAR, 8 is CASS, 9 is COMM/ALQ-99, 10 is IATS (intermediate avionics test
set) (part of shop 8). We used to have a TARPS shack but since the Tomcat's
gone there's not much use for that, is there? :-P

Jason


"Jim" wrote in message
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Jason,

My AIMD ECM shop was top notch. We did major maintenance on the ECM gear
from all the squadron aircraft. I was the night supervisor and had a
great group of guys. Made working 16 to 18 hours a day bearable. Don't
remember VAST. We worked on ALQ100, ALE25, APR25 and 27 ALQ41 - I think
those numbers are correct. There was a separate shop for the VAQ EA6Bs
and a radio shop.

Jim