Forum: Buddy Finder

Hey Davis,

I am with you 19 years on the 16 and now Kadena on F-15C models. They get mad at me when I ask why so early....I have a good friend at SJ. He runs the demo team.

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I'm no old timer but I see some of us have crossed paths...

99-01 Spangdahlem 22
01-03 Edwards 416/SP Hey Val !
03-04 Osan 36
04-04 Shaw 79

In late 04 I got out...I felt like I was taking crazy pills with all the stupid people calling the shots. Rolling Eyes

-GERB

I was one of them old f-4 guys who converted to f-16's at hill. I am still working on them in the UAE for Lockheed martin. I teach avionics class room theroy on block 60's

Homestead 87-89
Kunsan 90-91
Spangdahlem 91-93
Osan 93-94
Edwards 94-98
Eielson 98-02
Luke 02-05
Kunsan 05-06
? - 06-09

fixin' jets for 18 1/2 years and counting...

Almost 12 yrs on the 16. 11 of them on BLK 40's.
94-95 Kunsan 35th FS
95-01 Moody 69th FS/ 347th WG
01-05 Hill 4th FS/AMU
05-06 Kunsan QA
06-?? Seymour Johnson F-15's (I don't wanna leave my MDS)

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Hey Davis,

I am with you 19 years on the 16 and now Kadena on F-15C models. They get mad at me when I ask why so early....I have a good friend at SJ. He runs the demo team.

Strike Eagle Demo team - what a laugh. oooh see the big gray/green thing either GAB of IFE after pulling 5g's.

Yea, they laugh at me too - - I refuse to conform. In my office I have a "Reason the F-16 is better than the F-15" list. So far, the only thing my cc's have come up with for the F-15 side is the Oxygen system - MSOG instead of a bottle.

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06-?? Seymour Johnson F-15's (I don't wanna leave my MDS)

Well, my advice is to quickly make MSgt - do your minimum time and then PCS - most likely back to the ROK then to a follow-on. Otherwise prepare to be coated in oil, hydro and grease like you never have before. If a TSgt, you're fighting an uphill battle to expedite - they tend to use the guys with Eagle experience 1st. Coming in 06? When and what AMU?

Davis,

I know I might sound like a traitor here but.....I am a 19 year F-16 crew chief I got to Kadena and I am now a F-15 Speciasts Section Chief. I have a new found respect for these F-15 Avoinics troops. They work 12 hours a day trying to maintain a 75% FMC rate so we get the weekend off. One surge day 58 sorties 68 Avoinic Pilot Reported Discepranys. Un damn believable how bad these 78 models break.

Plus I am still stuck with the lox bottle.

Chris

I'm definately not the longest, but here is my rap sheet,

1996-2002 Tucson ANG Blocks-5/10/15/25/42 just missed the 60's Crying or Very sad

2002-2005 NAS Fallon (Boeing) Block-15

Peter

Forum Veteran Joined: Dec 25, 2003 - 10:03 PM Posts: 679

Eilson is one of those bases I hardly ever hear about. I had a friend from Anchorage tell me that it wasn't the most desirable place to be in AK. Also, how come some of you spent over 4 years at certain bases? I thought that doesn't happen too often.

ViperLoader wrote:

12 years in F-16 weapons so far...

Andrews AFB 1993- present

With deployments to Alpena (X3), D-M, Eielson, Nellis (X2), Savannah, Cold Lake, and a classified base in the Middle East.

There are guys in the 113th that have been in the unit since we had F-105s. We've had F-16 since 1989. The last guy in the unit to work on F-100s ( Shocked

) just retired after......41 years in the Guard!

Chappie

damn ....no PCS for you

Senior NCO Shaul, from the IAF Negev Sq' started working on block 5 vipers in febuary 1982
still working today on the f-16I block 52+, so i think it makes him the longest serving f-16 troop.
great guy BTW, and few are more professional then he is.
Cheers

Cheers.
fezt

Hey Pastorius, remember Ed Evers causing you to have to fight the whole Navy in Peurto Rico. How did the ribs heal?

I arrived Hill about the same time.
Hill 1982-1985 (34th, then 4th)
Tinker 1985-1986 (ABDR YUK!)
Break
Tulsa A-7 1987-1988
Tinker 1988-1989 507th
Break
Tulsa block 42's 1993-2000
Toledo block 42's 200-2003
Homestead block 30 2003-present
Will finally retire in 08.
It would be interesting to know who you are and what unit you were in.

Yea I still remember the A$$ kicking I got in PR. It was not a fight it was a A$$ whooping. Its funny to look back on that night 18 years later.

Later Chris

Forum: Buddy Finder

Longest continuously serving F-16 troop?