Either an Eagle guy, or a poser. Pretty much the same thing.

 

No panties. And I'm proud of the choices I've made with my career. Choosing or pretending to fly fighters wasn't one of them, thank God. I'm detecting a little jealously on your part? I found these pictures via Google just for you.

 

If those are real......for the first time I'm ahead of schedule on my Christmas shopping!!

USMCFLYR

 

HAhahah ... yes they are real. I googled "panties fighter pilot". I clicked on images instead of search returns.

 

rofl !!!!!! :d

 

I guess I'm a poser then

 

Dhafra gets worse and worse every time I go out there. It's still not as bad as the 'Died, but it's trying its hardest to match the 'Died in stupidity.

It's sad... all the reservists I talk to just shake their heads when they see how terrible Dhafra has become. It went from a handful of jets, bare minimum crews, bare minimum support force, no PT gear in sight, etc to the monster it is now. People used to fight over who got to go out for a nice, cushy 30 day deployment. Now? Not so much.

Are my 10 years up yet?

 

The FMC rates are abysmal. The jets simply weren't programed to do what they've been doing for the past 8-10 years... slaving away in the desert as OEF's *****/ tanker of choice, with no end in sight.

 

I will agree with you on the overuse clause. I also want to throw another monkey in the wrentch:

Do you think we would have better mx reliability if the planes were assigned to each squadron and each plane had a dedicated crew chief and team? I know it is a throw back to the "old days," as far back as the 90's, but it seems to me that personal accountability and pride goes a lot farther than, "it's not my shift/problem/qual." Just some angry guy out in the woods...

 

Could be, but I don't think accountability amongst the mx force is the issue. It's way higher up than that. Our mx folks work their f-ing asses off, both at home station and deployed. They're completely abused... we in ops really respect how much work they do with their manning and leadership issues. Talk about polishing a turd....

The issues deal with funding (rather, lack thereof) and a culture of temporary solutions instead of long-term fixes. In the ongoing battle between mx and ops at the leadership level (note: it's absolutely NOT at the crewdog level on either side), all they care about is what shows up red at the weekly wing standup. Is it an ops canx or a mx canx? This is by no means a KC-10 specific problem, it's AF wide. But rather than fix the problem by doing it right- canceling missions at home before they break in Sigonella for something that everyone can foresee, holding Northrop Grumman accountable for the C-Checks and actually fix the jets, buy more spare parts instead of constantly canning them, don't make the jets fly countless hours in desert conditions for a mission that's complete overkill, etc- it's a culture of "get em on the road and it'll be someone else's problem!".

Sad. Hopefully someone doesn't get hurt.