Forum: Careers & Assignments

1. 51st AMXS is that 16s? or A-10s? or Both? (please 16s)
2. What TDYs do they go on?
3. How's the weather? I heard they have the same as Pennsylvania (My home state)
4. How busy compared to Luke? (I know 12 hours everyday idc, but like do blk 40s break a lot compared to blk 25s?)
5. Do they deploy to Iraq (and now Afghanistan?)

Last week of of a 1 month leave too!

Crew Chief here at Luke just got orders to ROK, Osan AB.
Looking for information, first tour overseas.

1. 51st AMXS is that 16s? or A-10s? or Both? (please 16s)
2. What TDYs do they go on?
3. How's the weather? I heard they have the same as Pennsylvania (My home state)
4. How busy compared to Luke? (I know 12 hours everyday idc, but like do blk 40s break a lot compared to blk 25s?)
5. Do they deploy to Iraq (and now Afghanistan?)

Any answers would be awesome.

Thanx everyone!

1. 36th(F-16) 25th(A-10) If you go to the 25th you wont be the only 16 guy.

2. Different places around PACAF. All of them with good times to be had.

3. You def get all four seasons with LOTS of fog in the fall and late winter. Gets really cold in the winter.

4.The jets break just as much. Don't let the younger age fool ya! Say good bye to 2 go days and hello to 3-4 go days, excercises, and nightly reconfigs. 12 hrs is a good night. But when I worked the line there we were so busy that 13 hrs went bye like 7. When I first got there the role call seemed HUGE for swing shift till I saw how many jets we had and how much work we had.

5. Nope, the focus is to the north.

Good things about Osan:
HASes: I miss the privacy
GE motors: No one minute motoring B4 start or scavenging on shutdown.
No Lukeisms: QA isnt going to write you up for hanging your comm cord on the static discharger.
Hot Pits: Just hope your jet doesn't come back.
200+ bars outside the gate: You'll have the best times you wont remember till your friends tell u bout the fat juicy you took home.

Bad things bout Osan:
HASes: They are so far from support, expeditors, and civilization
GE motors: They love oil, and that 10 hr flame sensor you whip comes back as a AB no light.
Osanisms: Not as bad as luke but that comm door you didnt close is a UCR(exposed cannon plugs)
Wide flying window: Nothing stretches out swings like coming in and launching last goes.
Living in the dorms: No BAS, hoping your roomate is clean, no A/C in the summer, no hot water or heat in the winter.


But man I miss that place. Have fun.

1. 36th(F-16) 25th(A-10) If you go to the 25th you wont be the only 16 guy.

2. Different places around PACAF. All of them with good times to be had.

3. You def get all four seasons with LOTS of fog in the fall and late winter. Gets really cold in the winter.

4.The jets break just as much. Don't let the younger age fool ya! Say good bye to 2 go days and hello to 3-4 go days, excercises, and nightly reconfigs. 12 hrs is a good night. But when I worked the line there we were so busy that 13 hrs went bye like 7. When I first got there the role call seemed HUGE for swing shift till I saw how many jets we had and how much work we had.

5. Nope, the focus is to the north.

Good things about Osan:
HASes: I miss the privacy
GE motors: No one minute motoring B4 start or scavenging on shutdown.
No Lukeisms: QA isnt going to write you up for hanging your comm cord on the static discharger.
Hot Pits: Just hope your jet doesn't come back.
200+ bars outside the gate: You'll have the best times you wont remember till your friends tell u bout the fat juicy you took home.

Bad things bout Osan:
HASes: They are so far from support, expeditors, and civilization
GE motors: They love oil, and that 10 hr flame sensor you whip comes back as a AB no light.
Osanisms: Not as bad as luke but that comm door you didnt close is a UCR(exposed cannon plugs)
Wide flying window: Nothing stretches out swings like coming in and launching last goes.
Living in the dorms: No BAS, hoping your roomate is clean, no A/C in the summer, no hot water or heat in the winter.


But man I miss that place. Have fun.

Oil servicing on the GE is just as easy, but you will get tried of having to walk to the other side of the diamond to get an oil cart. At least they dont need a JOAP every flight. But you will have to R2 MCDs every flight. Just make sure you put it in straight and the packing isnt torn or you will have a rapidly growing puddle next eng start.

Great insight from the former Osan gang here -

Just to add a few things -

TDYs = depending on the schedule and exercise .. to Eielson or to Singapore and and a occasional DACT 4-6 ship detachment to Kadena vs F-15Cs. 7th Air Force units are AEF exempt.

Latest I heard was the Spangdalem AB in Germany goes down to one Block 50 squadron and sends them to the 36th... ie BRAC

so korea is getting blk 50s?

Osan is awsome...the weather has been great....winter sucks though. Shifts are long, but you have nothing else to do but work and make fun of everything around you. Chem gear sucks...no doubt, but you'll be a pro by the time the summer rolls up again. The jets are all pretty much jacked up because of the humidity. If your avionics, have fun, if not...then you get to watch them come out and try and reset everything all the time. Engines are ...well.....you'll just have to come here and find out. see ya soon!!