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Any Air Force mech. here, what's wrong with this picture

ltcdoty


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  • Wild Turkey

    Retired Army here but that many stripes actually working????😁

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  • jimdeere

    The ladder doesn’t come all the way to the ground?

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  • select-fire

    Didn't know that guy could read...yes I know I am going to for saying that..

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  • buddyb

    That many stripes working is probably for a photo shoot.

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  • Butchdog2

    Ammo magazine in wrong place?

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  • Rocky Raab

    That appears to be an F-100, and the 20mm storage was NOT in the cockpit.

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  • Junkballer

    Mixed ammo in the belt it appears, I'm not an AF mechanic though 😊

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  • pulsarnc

    Not an air force mech but what limited knowledge I have tells me that not where the ammo goes

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  • dunbarboyz

    I don't think that is real isn't that Phil Silvers?

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  • ltcdoty

    I cut my teeth as an aircraft electrician on the F-100. The gun cans are in the right place, the belts are hiding the compartment for the rounds., with the ammo bay panel cover leaning against the nose gear.

    I just never saw so many E-7s and E-8s around a plane like that. Must be a photo shoot or there was a VIP on base.

    I betcha they had steak at the chow hall that day....😮


    Maybe it was an Air Guard unit top heavy with senior NCOs..

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  • Brookwood

    I was once an Air Force aircraft mechanic. Worked on one & two engine fighter jet aircraft.


    The first thing I noticed was the screwdriver sticking out of that "crew chief's" pocket.

    A perfect catch for an ejection seat!! There were many stories of this happening on the ground and most of them were true!

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  • pulsarnc

    I stand corrected .thanks 😊

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  • ltcdoty
    Brookwood: 31516951418651/comments/31516951983259

    I was once an Air Force aircraft mechanic. Worked on one & two engine fighter jet aircraft.

    The first thing I noticed was the screwdriver sticking out of that "crew chief's" pocket.

    A perfect catch for an ejection seat!! There were many stories of this happening on the ground and most of them were true!

    During Electrician Tech School in 1968, they would show a slew of safety films. One was a Sad Sack kind of character who was always screwing up. There was a scene where he is sitting in a F-100 cockpit with a screw driver in his front pocket. Somebody asks him if he wants to go to chow or something...he stands up and hits the ejection seat trigger with the screwdriver and ejects himself and hits the tarmac.

    He gets up, now as a ghost, and they play some goofy music as he walks across the airfield.


    There was also one where a mechanic drops out of a B-52 while on the ground and catches a ring on a bomb rack. Ripping off his finger and about a foot of tendon out of his arm.

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  • mike55

    Those ejection seats are NO joke. We always installed safety pins while the AC is inside the hanger. I can only imagine what happened to the poor soul that accidentally ejected inside the hanger. Most safety protocols come in effect, AFTER an accident.

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  • pulsarnc

    True story from mid 1970's in my neck of the woods . Seymour Johnson air force ,Goldsboro nc. Crew chief despondent due to catching wife with her new boyfriend commits suicide . Sits down in F 4 Phantom sitting inside the maintence hanger . Pulls the go pin on the ejector seat..Hell of a mess when he hits the steel roof trusses . I knew some of the airmen who were on duty and witnessed it

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  • callktulu

    They're wearing headwear out on the flightline.

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  • armilite

    Apparently everyone in the Air Force was an E-7 or an E-8. I entered the wrong service.

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