I know all about whiners in Nomex. Once we had guy come back, complained he was throwing bombs all over the place. Weapons tech came to me with the weapon delivery report to ask questions. I snagged it from him; told him he was gonna loooove my reply.

Guy took off with a dead radar; didn't let us fix it. So much for air-to-ground ranging for delivery computation. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/nana.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/nana.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/butwiggle.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/butwiggle.gif" alt="" />

Same guy later on this trip comes into debrief; I'm waiting for him. We discuss problem. Then he says in this very loud voice "Sgt S., are you telling me that I'm wrong?"

I reply "In fact I am sir; please read." And hand him the avionics bible and point to the paragraph and told him that was how I was going to sign it off if he wrote it up.

I think he had to buy the beer that night, as I had to know that book as well as the pilots did. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

The maintainers' adage: It takes a college education to break them, and a high school education to fix them.