Forum: F-16 Procedures

"Whooo, Whooo, Whooo!!! Scramble, Scramble!!"

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I know where those pics were taking I was there with mountain home for christmas and new years of 05 Not a bad place to do alert. I also did it in Michigan for 4 months while selfridge fixed there jets and got them back fmc.

The Alert I and many others pulled back in the 70's and 80's was quite different, at times it was a combination of air defense and deterrent , others times, well as you can image, it was during the Cold War and the weapons configuration was quite different.

Times may changes but the commitment to security remains high, well done by all

Chow hall food on VA was always the best. Thumb

Oh yes, very true!

That is very true and I never felt I was hurried much either, well not most times....

Hah funny this should come up, Im sitting at alert right now, wanna know how my day went. Got up looked over the jets, no [Link pending approval] here all day, gets boring when nothings going on, but as for the scramble the above description sounds about right, dont forget the FOD walks. that should about do it.

extinctls1 wrote:

I know where those pics were taking I was there with mountain home for christmas and new years of 05.

Yeah, it's a nice place if you can cope with the fact that the town of Killeen is mostly an Army base, literally. But the Army folk are really nice to the AF guys when we're there. Especially at the bars!!! Beer

Here's to the "bars" and the women that make them all worth while. Cheers

HAF's Scrambles

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I miss the cart starts, all the flame and rotten egg smell, just seems to go with alert scrambles if you ask me.

ACMIguy wrote:

I miss the cart starts, all the flame and rotten egg smell, just seems to go with alert scrambles if you ask me.

Damn … I forgot about them, E-flux fans in a 3rd gen shelters had little or no effect in dissipating the smoke. And they said the carts were smokeless Laughing

Enthusiast Joined: Apr 20, 2005 - 03:38 PM Posts: 74

Did plenty of QRA-scrables in Bodoe,

The alarm would sound and the pilots called up for a short brief while we got dressed and run down to the HAS where the jets where locked up. We opend the door and did some checks while the pilots got suited up.

The pilot climbed into the cocpit and the CC helped him to strap in. He shut the canopy while the JFS spooled up the engine. When the engine start sequense was completed, I checked for 6 green fuel lights pulled the APU pin and gave thumbs up. About a minute later the pilot orderd to remove the chocks, we did so and walked out of the shelter. He did an APU check and taxied just outside the shelter, pointing the jet at a safe point (a small ridge on the other side of the taxyway usually, or sometimes just at the sea. (at the end of the runway the next landmass is greenland). I removed the nosecovers and, armed the AIM-9's also removing the laucher pin,chaff/flare pin and wingtank pin if this was installed. The jet was armed with two AIM-9L's at the time ('93-95). The CC removed the gun saftys. We gave thumbs up to the pilot and he was off.

I was the '90-'91 superintendent for Eagle Alert at Osan. I made sure they had the best facilities to work in. I had 35 separate jobs there, from Superintendent to Chief of Supply I had to do it all. Supply thought I worked for MWR, the Post Office thought I worked at wing admin and the munitions folks had no clue to what we did! Later, with the ACC IG I did most of the inspections of our remaining NORAD Alert units, both Eagle and Vipers. Big contrast on facilities and big contrast on duties, too! Loved going to Cape Cod; but in the winters I loved going to Tyndall to look at the Duluth, MN alert! They always catered the noon meal when we inspected! Sometimes it was two weeks on the road looking at multiple alert units for NORAD. The worst part was convincing an active-duty Command Post that the NORAD badges were real. Some active-duty Command Posts failed the test! Amazing!

The good ole days, sadly they pass far too quickly. I knew some that complained about alert duty, I enjoyed it plus, it appeared slight different in operation at each location, I experienced much in that twenty six year career, most of it was great times. Hard work was what it was all about, worked hard, played hard and we seem to live by it. Different today I am told, guess I am glad I was in during the time-frames it was at its height for work and play.

I sure miss Europe, it is not the same just going back to visit anymore...everything is different now but the USAF moves forward into new taskings, new locations and the hard work goes with it. Salute

I remember timing the ND guys at Langley during an alert once and from the time the bell rang, to lift off was 1 minute, 48 seconds...pretty impressive to see... They actually opened the throttle while they were mid-turn onto the active...the jets leaned a bit...it was cool as $h!t.