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#16
What's an ASEV and how does one bust it? How does an ASEV differ from an ORI?
WAY BACK WHEN I was in water-wagons, our tankers hit all nav points, did all our refuelings. The bombers tossed shack after shack and we busted the ORI because everyone was on a first name basis (when we talked to the crew chiefs we called them by their name and they did the same with us.. great rapport) and a bunch of other minor things. The profile for the bombers was a tough one and most of the other bases were tossing bombs from Mexico to Canada. The IG team gave us 3 months and came back. Everything went FUBAR.
Tankers couldn't get airborne for maint delays. Missed nav points, missed refuelings. Bomber tossed bombs from Mexico to Canada but we wore our hats, saluted, called each other Sgt. and Capt and passed...
Have things changed???
WAY BACK WHEN I was in water-wagons, our tankers hit all nav points, did all our refuelings. The bombers tossed shack after shack and we busted the ORI because everyone was on a first name basis (when we talked to the crew chiefs we called them by their name and they did the same with us.. great rapport) and a bunch of other minor things. The profile for the bombers was a tough one and most of the other bases were tossing bombs from Mexico to Canada. The IG team gave us 3 months and came back. Everything went FUBAR.
Tankers couldn't get airborne for maint delays. Missed nav points, missed refuelings. Bomber tossed bombs from Mexico to Canada but we wore our hats, saluted, called each other Sgt. and Capt and passed...
Have things changed???
#17
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ASEV is an aircrew stan eval visit...an inspection specific to ops. As you know, an ORI is for the whole wing. Funny you should note the first name basis thing. During our ORI (I'm in a guard unit and everyone from the Wing Commander on down is on a first name basis) my crew chief was overheard by one of the inspectors calling me by my first name. Never even occurred to us that anything was out of the norm, but the Active Duty Dork Inspector we had took issue with it. So in a sense, nothing has changed. Well, unless you count losing total sight of the real mission as a change.
#18
I was stationed at Shady J years ago. Every time I say "Seymore Johnson" my teenage son just cracks up. "See More Johnson....That's hilarious dad....I can't believe they would name a base like that." Sorry for the thread jack, but every time someone mentions Shady J, I see my son cracking up laughing. Back to your regularly scheduled program.
Try telling your son that the base was named for Navy Lt Seymour A. Johnson who died for his country in March 1941 test flying a F4F-3. A Navel Academy Graduate with over 4000 flying hours, the folks in his home town, Goldsboro, NC, thought so much of him, they asked the Air Corps to name their new base after him. Today, Lt Johnson is immortalized by being the only Navel Officer to have a Air Force base named for him, and by having his initials, SJ, grace the tails of the over 80 F-15Es of the most legendary fighter wing in the USAF. Not bad for a Red Neck Squid with a funny name. Tell you son that, maybe he won't laugh so hard.
#19
Try telling your son that the base was named for Navy Lt Seymour A. Johnson who died for his country in March 1941 test flying a F4F-3. A Navel Academy Graduate with over 4000 flying hours, the folks in his home town, Goldsboro, NC, thought so much of him, they asked the Air Corps to name their new base after him. Today, Lt Johnson is immortalized by being the only Navel Officer to have a Air Force base named for him, and by having his initials, SJ, grace the tails of the over 80 F-15Es of the most legendary fighter wing in the USAF. Not bad for a Red Neck Squid with a funny name. Tell you son that, maybe he won't laugh so hard.
#20
Get A Grip
Try telling your son that the base was named for Navy Lt Seymour A. Johnson who died for his country in March 1941 test flying a F4F-3. A Navel Academy Graduate with over 4000 flying hours, the folks in his home town, Goldsboro, NC, thought so much of him, they asked the Air Corps to name their new base after him. Today, Lt Johnson is immortalized by being the only Navel Officer to have a Air Force base named for him, and by having his initials, SJ, grace the tails of the over 80 F-15Es of the most legendary fighter wing in the USAF. Not bad for a Red Neck Squid with a funny name. Tell you son that, maybe he won't laugh so hard.
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