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Paul from Antioch
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How about the USAFE theme song?? "Down we go, into the wild green forest, crashing low into the trees. Here I sit, stuck on this (Expletive Deleted) old tree branch looking at that hungry panther, who hasn't eateni in years!!" 
Paul from Antioch
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Even though that was over 50 years ago, I still get nightmares over having to R & R #2 Miscellaneous Relay Panel. The Egress people had to remove the entire rear cockpit seat bucket & then you had to squeeze into that 5" narrow space to remove the cockpit's inner panels just to look at it. Then you very carefully had to remove 8 cannon plugs & four mounting bolts to pry it out of that very narrow rear cockpit's seat bucket just to take it in for repair. AND, assuming you got a replacement relay (Which about 85+% of the time YOU DIDN'T!!), then you had to cut & remove all 52 wire leads emanating from this little 1.5 rectangular metal relay & put in another one in!! Of course, 98.6% of our write-ups were due to a malfunctioning relay in #2 relay panel!! Those highly paid McDonnell-Douglas engineers designed that aircraft so as the things that'd go wrong on it were always in the dead center of it, then they built the F-4C around it!! And my retention NCO was amazed that I didn't want to re-up for another 4 years during which my promotion from E-4 to E-5 would take another 8 years....IF I WAS LUCKY!! .....It didn't take me too long to find out that a dude named Murphy ran Md - D, Inc.!!!When I was in Germany, 1967=69, AF TV ran re-runs of TV shows that were popular back in those days. Back then, one had to be either a high-ranking NCO (E-6 or higher) to even have your own room in our "Dormitories" (a/k/a Barraccks). since I was only an E-4, I remained in our "One Size Fits ALL" (Literally!). Moreover, my AFSC (MOS for you lucky grunts!!) was J42350. Translation: F/RF 4-C fighter/bomber/Reconaissne Aviation Electrical Systems Repairman) Since the 26 Tactical Recon Wing flew the RF-4C, we were responsible for maintaining every system up to the bus distributing elements + a few systems that no other AFSC wanted (Like about 75% of the entire aircraft!!). Ramstein AB was originally a Luftwaffe base in WW2. You could easily see where its runway(s) merged onto the autobann (Although the USAFE had blocked them off.) ANYWAY, I did enjoy watching some of the TV shows that the Armed Forces Network aired (NOTE: German TV sets were completely different from the US TV system. Its line system for the pictures were different + The German electrical systems were 50 volts, 200 cps. A TV set (or ANY electrical powered item would literally fry if you plugged in your US-made appliance without a step-down transformer!! But, back to the TV shows, the AFN TV network never ran any "Hogan's Heroes" shows back then!! A decade or two later I was deployed 3 times to Germany as an Avionics Guidance & Control Systems Technician for the TN ANG. My 3d deployment was actually at the very same Ramstein AB flight line. This time, however, we were maintaining C-130H Cargo transport aircraft for Operation Provide Promise whose mission was to re-supply Bosnia with just about every imaginable cargo. (It was, shall we say, "Interesting" to inhale pallets of goat's milk that'd been waiting several hours for takeoff clearance. I didn't know this at that time, but RAB was the US air base that had command & control of Harrison Ford's "Air Force One" movie. OTOH our TN ANG C-130H actually was hit 3-4 times on its return from the Sarajavo Airport. It missed having its yaw lines tensioning system (Which controls the L-R flight pattern) severed by just a fraction of an inch. Since I wasn't assigned to any flight crew operations, I did find out about this until latter. Aircraft 1181 was given a Purple Heart for being injured while in flight. I didn't know that an aircraft could be awarded a Purple Heart, but 1181 (This is the tail number for the 118th Airlift wing's first-delivered aircraft from the Lockheed-Martin Co whose plant is adjacent to Atlanta's International airport.) Originally the 118th AW was given 10 C-130H aircraft, then we lost 4 of them to the Arkansas ANG wing when Billy the Kid ("I loathe the military!!") was C-in-C; then we lost 10 more to the Illinois ANG wings when Obama was POTUS, then we were left with just a couple of them when I retired in Jan 2005. Now my TN ANG unit has done at all. NOW it's merely the 118th Wing. NOW we train personnel to operate unmanned but heavily armed Drones. They can't tell us anything about these drone's payload, but if you happen to drive on Donelson or Murfreesboro Pikes in Nashville, I'd suggest that you don't exceed the speed limit. TN State Troopers might just have their way to let y'all know that they've caught you!! But, not to worry....They'll have a blast retriving your remains!!!
RighteousnessTemperance&
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He runs a lot more than that. His law is law!
Now, on with the game…
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Paul from Antioch
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Paul from Antioch
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Don't forget to note my edit to that post. It is of utmost importance.