But now *this* example goes totally against your "three rules of
officership."

Backpedaling now, are we?

Steve Swartz

"ArtKramr" wrote in message
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Subject: An Officer.......
From: (QDurham)
Date: 2/24/04 10:32 PM Pacific Standard Time
Message-id:

Let me give you another example. We show up at our plane before a
mission. I
do
the mandatory pre-flight inspection and find that the arming wires in
the
bomb
bay are poorly isntalled. I turn to one of the gunners and say, "Sgt.
Get
in
that jeep and go to the ammo dump and get an ordnance man our here to
reinstall these arming wires properly." He says," I don't know sir, they
don't
look all that bad to me.. And it is a long way to the dump.And those
ordnance
guys really get ****ed if you bug them like that. Why don't we just fly
the
mission. It will probably be OK".

Now that never happened. But if it did that gunner wouild be removed
from
our
crew. We wouldn't have him fly with us on Willie the Wolf. He would
probably
be
removed form the base never to be seen again. And when you inquired
about
what
happened to him, no one would seem to know. What do you think happened
to
him?
Any idea?

Want some more examples?

.

Arthur Kramer
344th BG 494th BS
England, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany
Visit my WW II B-26 website at:
http://www.coastcomp.com/artkramer

Art, you are so damn right. Been there. Done that. Preflight
Pensacola.
You
are so correct. Sic 'em!

Quent



On our crew any order given by our pilot was immediately carried out
without
question. He was a good pilot and a good leader and knew what he was
doing.
There were times when we came home from missions with battle damage and S
/Sgt
Greigo engineer giunner (tail) would be up all night working with the crew
chief on the repairs. In the morning we would ask Greigo if Willie was ok.
If
he said no, we wouldn't fly her no matter what the crew chief said. If he
gave
us a thumbs up we would haveWillie in the air that day. So we worked
together
as a crew. But no member of our crew ever once did anything less than
follow
orders as they were given. It was the way we were trained and it was the
way we
flew. And we did it with pride and professionalism.