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 Name SrA. Nathan Bradley
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Unit 331st skvadron "Lion"
Crewing F-16s
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I started crewing with the 524th FS in 1996 right when they were retiring the F-111's from Canon. We only had a few jets at the time since we were still building up the squad with jets from Pope, Shaw, Hill and Eielson. We had a somewhat interesting mix of crew chiefs consisting of quite a few MRT guys like myself along with many ex-f-111 guys that cross trained and even a couple of guys that worked on heavies. Needless to say, the maintenance was a little lacking until we got the more experienced guys in from Pope to bail us out (Hewey, Hos, Ben, Romeo, Wags and later Dicky "D"). We eventually came together as a squadron with some really good maintainers and troubleshooters. We somehow became the "Go To Vegas" unit and did shitloads of TDY's there to the point of nausea. Our first and my last true deployment was to PSAB in March 98 for Operation Southern Watch. After my 4 was up I got out. Enrolled in FAA A&P school, graduated and tried the civilian aviation side, it sucked. Got an offer to go back to 16's doing contract work in Norway. I have now done contracts with both the RNLAF and the RNoAF and currently in the middle of another RNoAF contract.

My Jets & Assignments

 		89083 [Detailed history of this F-16]
Unit 524th Fighter Squadron "Hounds" [Unit History]
Period 1996 - 2000
Current: 89083   USAF 16 WS F-16C Block 40 [ act]
This was my pride and joy. It looked like a piece of crap for the first 18 months of crewing it but it was a 'code one king'... until it became a "can bird". After the rebuild it went to paint and didn't quite work right for a while. It looked good though. Then off to the sand box and it flew great the whole deployment as well as after returning home. Then, with not having enough ADCC's, the brass decided to try this "Cell" program and assign 2-3 jets per 1 ADCC and was assigned 89-2006 and 89-2008 as well as 083. Then at the end of 99 I decided to pull chocks.
299 [Detailed history of this F-16]
Unit 331st skvadron "Lion" [Unit History]
Period 2002 - 2004
Current: 1628   FAR Esc 48 F-16A Block 20 MLU [ act]
Since this was contract work we were not assigned a jet but worked all of them in the squadron at one time or another. I picked 299 because I think I was assigned to that jet the most.
J-004 [Detailed history of this F-16]
Unit 311th squadron "Eagle" [Unit History]
Period 2005 - 2006
Current: J-004   F-16A Block 20 MLU [ sto]
Same contract work but with the Dutch this time. I also worked pretty much every jet from the 311, 312 and 313 squads at one time or another due to the fact that the Dutch consolidated all of the jets into one weird kind of super squadron at Volkel AB.
683 [Detailed history of this F-16]
Unit 331st skvadron "Lion" [Unit History]
Period 2006 -
Current: 683   F-16A Block 20 MLU [ sto]
Back at the 331 SKV. What can I say...
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