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Just for reference on a few of these tail flashes heres a couple nice pic links..

88-0550
http://www.f-16.net/modules.php?set_alb ... _photo.php

89-2016
http://www.f-16.net/f-16_photos_album70-photoatr.html

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Last edited by maddog2840 on Jan 11, 2006 - 02:05 AM; edited 2 times in total

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One of our guys got kinda sneaky on a TLP

Ahhhh....TLP. If you haven't been, you just don't know. I went in 1989 and our 462's were zap crazy (with spray paint, thank you). They tagged every jet except the Canadians who posted ARMED guards to prevent this silliness. Our pilots wanted to know how they tagged the fire extinguisher INSIDE of hard ops. Anyway they come to me and ask, "Do pilots have to follow hand signals?" "Well, technically yes", I went no further. Apparently "Larry, the F-18 Pilot" was their drinking buddy and they stopped him while he was taxing out to a mission. While stopped by the first intrepid 462, the "2 Guy" tagged the jet while the pilot watched helplessly from the cockpit.
OUR MAJOR came and asked me the next day if it was true that "one our guys" stopped an F-18 on the taxiway. "Yes sir", I told him "They noticed a foreign object and the taxiway and stopped the aircraft before it sucked it up. They then removed the F.O. and allowed the aircraft to proceed."

Guess what made it into a bullet statement for an acheivement medal?

The Canadians posted guards to stop people from 'zapping' their aircraft? They're some of the most 'liberal zappers' that there are - it's rare to see a jet come back from a trip north of the border without a maple leaf stenciled somewhere...

Mike

Hey Ghetto, I was in the Dime. When were you at Avi-Nam? (God, I love that name! Those of us who were there will ever know how appropriate that name is.)

maddog2840 wrote:

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One of our guys got kinda sneaky on a TLP

Ahhhh....TLP. If you haven't been, you just don't know. I went in 1989 and our 462's were zap crazy (with spray paint, thank you). They tagged every jet except the Canadians who posted ARMED guards to prevent this silliness. Our pilots wanted to know how they tagged the fire extinguisher INSIDE of hard ops. Anyway they come to me and ask, "Do pilots have to follow hand signals?" "Well, techincally yes", I went no further. Apparently "Larry, the F-18 Pilot" was their drinking buudy and they stopped him while he was taxing out to a mission. While stopped by the first intrepid 462, the "2 Guy" tagged the jet while the pilot watched helplessly from the cockpit.
OUR MAJOR came and asked me the next day if it was true that "one our guys" stopped an F-18 on the taxiway. "Yes sir", I told him "They noticed a foreign object and the taxiway and stopped the aircraft before it sucked it up. They then removed the F.O. and allowed the aircraft to proceed."

Guess what made it into a bullet statement for an acheivement medal?

this one right here had me rollin

cheers Beer

MKopack wrote:

The Canadians posted guards to stop people from 'zapping' their aircraft? They're some of the most 'liberal zappers' that there are - it's rare to see a jet come back from a trip north of the border without a maple leaf stenciled somewhere...

Mike

Here's a picture of the Canadians in question.

Here's one showing some more fun at TLP.

Here's a well placed <a href="http://www.f-16.net/index.php?name=PNphpBB2&file=viewtopic&t=4688&highlight=" target="new">Zap</a>

I was in the WFHR (workers f**ked hard royally / we fly holidays regularly) i mean World Famous Highly Respected Triple Nickel from April 96 till April 98 Mr. Green

and spent many a night at the "Cow Bar" aka the California Beer Parlor dropping back 6000 lira liter beers
Cheers

hey what happened to my pictures????

maddog2840,

If you're referring to the pics of the Canadians, they're still there for me. You might check your settings and turn off any banner blockers that might be on.

92BlueFox724 wrote:

Have a no notice recall. Make it seem like they are going to war. Do it on a Saturday, so that everyone can be there. When everyone has signed in, have the Commander walk in and give a speech on keeping morale up while away from your families, and then suprize everyone with a good meal, stuff to drink, and things to do, Raffles, Unit Challenges, etc. Show everyone that the hard work they do is appreciated.

Blue Fox Out

If you ever did this in my Squadron when I was there.........Well i'd rather not think of it. If you recalled me on my day off for something like that at 0800 I would not be a happy camper. I was always on swings so I would have just been going to bed.

Best tradition would be meeting at the bar after work and getting drunk......I meen drink responsably.

When I left the 522nd, Marv Aviles was the expiditor for B flight and he would buy the first round at the club on Friday nights. Talk about motivating swing shift, everyone was busting a** to get the work done so we could go have a few. Offer a crew chief a beer and you have one motivated individual!!

Everything that Maddog talks about here is true. I was there and saw it all. Besides the MANY things that he lists, it's also great fun to play pranks of fellow co-workers. Important Disclaimer.....You must first be sure that it won't get you a LOR or Article 15. I can recall being at the Lick (incirlic) and spiking Maddog's mountain dew with exlax. Maddog got me back one Friday after a long day on the line. I had gone back to the dorms after work to get a "combat nap" before a night out with the guys. Somehow he got into the room (the door was locked) and all I remember was faintly hearing "puppy pile," looked up just in time to see about 7 guys in mid air about to pile on top of me. Then there was was the famous incident at the Monkey Bar in downtown ZZA. You've got to have fun at work.

Esprit De Corps is important in any unit. I work for the Guard now full time at an Active Duty F-16 base right next door to an Active Duty F-16 squadron. On any given day I can walk out to the smoke pit and listen to a group of first term airmen talk about how they hate their jobs and can't wait until their enlistment is over. It's sad because it doesn't have to be that way. NCO's have to find a way to motivate airmen to want to be there and carry on the torch. It's a very different Air Force now than what I joined 17 years ago....

we would get the new specialists all the time when i was at tyndall. When they were improcessing we had an offial letterhead from the whitehouse that we used to make a policy letter for all new specialists. It basically read like blah blah blah you are so important than all the rest of the flightline workers that Bush has directed mandatory in house specialist piss tests. Accompanying the policy letter would be a JOAP bottle. Newer failed. Specialist flight chief always had a fresh JOAP bottle of urine sitting on his desk in the morning with tagged names attached Smile

yeah marv was one of the best expediters ive ever worked for, at aviano and at cannon

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Maint. traditions, what traditions?