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Old 02-18-2010, 04:57 AM
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These posts bring back some memories!

I was a weapons loader in the Air Force from 1984-1994. (462 as well, Stitch!) I once lost a 5/8 socket inside a gun bay panel on an A-10. It fell out the following day, much to the surprise of the crew working the aircraft at the time. Needless to say, my nickname from then on was "Socket".

Since it rhymed with my last name anyway, it wasn't all that bad...
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Old 02-18-2010, 12:55 PM
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I was a weapons loader in the Air Force from 1984-1994. (462 as well, Stitch!) I once lost a 5/8 socket inside a gun bay panel on an A-10....
Ahhhh the joys of lost tools! While working Hogs myself up AK way we had a guy send a dogbone ratchet for an incentive ride on a TER once. Luckly the way he had it wedged in the "tighten" mode it stayed there the whole time. Not many tools get to log a 3.5 on the Hog! I'm just grateful it wasn't my load crew.

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Old 02-18-2010, 01:22 PM
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Ahhhh the joys of lost tools! While working Hogs myself up AK way we had a guy send a dogbone ratchet for an incentive ride on a TER once. Luckly the way he had it wedged in the "tighten" mode it stayed there the whole time. Not many tools get to log a 3.5 on the Hog! I'm just grateful it wasn't my load crew.
Okay let me see if I have this right:

Hogs refer to A10, correct?
Up AK way is in Alaska, correct?
Get to log 3.5 on a Hog is fly 3.5 hours in an A10, correct

What is a dogbone ratchet and also what is a TER?

Because I was born in England, a previous German girlfriend of mine called me "der Inselaffe" which means island monkey.
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Old 02-18-2010, 02:04 PM
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when you think your wingman is launching on dawn patrol after month 5 at sea and you believe you hear the sound of the launch from your stateroom below the flight deck and decide now would be a great time to exercise some personal ah hmmm TLC, you might get a callsign of "Spanky" when your wingman actually canx the flight due to foul weather and walks in and turns on the lights....after 24 years of Naval service I still cannot shake this one (no pun intended)

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Old 02-18-2010, 02:23 PM
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I earned my callsign at an EAA breakfast. I was on base and about to turn final when the RV-9 on short final decided he was going too fast to land and needed to perform a 360. I thought this was rather stupid but I knew how to do a go around. I start to go around and he is still too fast and doesn't land. Now he is under me, climbing and I can't see him. Needless to say I had a few choice words for him on the radio and on the ground a few minutes later.

From then on my callsign has been Mofo.
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Old 02-18-2010, 06:42 PM
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We had a guy in my F16 squadron that was burning leaves in his backyard and didnt know about the poison ivy that was mixed in with the pile of leave. He was covered with poison ivy.

That was grounds enough for re-namage.

Now he's called Fester
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Old 02-18-2010, 11:22 PM
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Stitch, I sent you a PM.
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Old 02-19-2010, 09:09 AM
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Out for a $100 burger and one of the guys in the group makes an unusually big deal out of specifically getting his sweet tea... OK - "Sweet Tea" it is!
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Old 02-19-2010, 02:23 PM
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Ahhhh the joys of lost tools! While working Hogs myself up AK way we had a guy send a dogbone ratchet for an incentive ride on a TER once. Luckly the way he had it wedged in the "tighten" mode it stayed there the whole time. Not many tools get to log a 3.5 on the Hog! I'm just grateful it wasn't my load crew.
I wasn't going to rat on anyone else's call sign, but this reminds me how one of my crew chiefs in Germany earned the nickname "Snoopy" for a similar incident. I arrived for an early morning flight to find him looking very tired (he'd been up all night), and with well over 100 write-ups in "the book" confirming all the places on the airplane he had searched for, and failed to find, a missing screwdriver-type-thingy referred to as a Snoopy (because it looked like a profile of the cartoon dog). During my walk around I slapped the inside of the speed brakes where I always did, only to hear the sound of metal bouncing. Obviously he had been sitting on the floor working on something else, and absent-mindedly set it down on a convenient ledge...
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Old 02-23-2010, 11:44 AM
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... Germany .... missing screwdriver-type-thingy referred to as a Snoopy.... (because it looked like a profile of the cartoon dog). .... absent-mindedly set it down on a convenient ledge...
Bitburg Air Base, Germany 1985ish, Working the mighty F-15C Eagle, another load crew did something similiar. After several jobs they finally do a tool inventory (like they're supposed to do after EVERY job) they noticed their "snoopy" missing. Looked all over, they jets they worked on, everywhere. No luck. They report the lost tool to the Pro Super who has a stroke since the jets are already flying for the day. Once the jets are back the fleet gets grounded until the lost tool is resolved. Late that night another crew locates the snoopy. Wedged between the bottom of the wing and the station 2 wing pylon. Seems one of the crew members sat the tool down for a second on top of the pylon then proceeded to load the pylon on the jet. The tool was trapped and wasn't going anywhere so no worry of a dropped object or it migrating in the flight controls or anything just really poor tool control and a HUGE pain the in butt for everyone involved. The "best" part? The snoopy isn't even a required tool for uploading a wing pylon on to the Eagle!

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