Here is Steve hard at work with all his gear on. We had some sort of threat on base so everyone had to get dressed up. It was a regular occurrence on our last deployment but thankfully rare this time around.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
skip to main |
skip to sidebar
Military Acronyms and Other Abbreviations
- Acft - Aircraft
- AFCS - Advanced Flight Control System
- AH-64 - Apache
- CE - Crew chief
- CH-46 - Marine's much smaller version of a Chinook
- CH-47 - Chinook
- CH-53 - Large Marine cargo helicopter
- DFac - Dinning Facility
- FE - Flight engineer
- FOB - Forward Operating Base
- IP - Instructor Pilot
- ME - Maintenance Examiner
- MTF - Maintenance Test Flight
- MTP - Maintenance Test Pilot
- NVG - Night Vision Google
- Pax - Passengers
- PC - Production Control
- Phase - Periodic in-depth inspection
- PI - Pilot
- PIC - Pilot in Command
- QC - Quality Control
- TI - Technical Inspector
- UH-60 - Blackhawk
- Vis - Visibility
- Xmsn - Transmission
Web Links
Blog Archive
-
▼
2008
(147)
-
▼
May
(12)
- 24 May
- This is Mike of our flight guys who gave up flying...
- This is a picture of me reading. Not a bad life r...
- This is Brian in his usual movie watching pose. I...
- This is a series of pictures of what we do on slow...
- This is the table in PC where we keep all the logb...
- A baseball game some of the guys in the unit organ...
- This is a rare picture of the two guys actually ru...
- This is taken inside the maintenance office a few ...
- Here is Steve hard at work with all his gear on. ...
- I had to post one more picture of dust, hopefully ...
- 15 May
-
▼
May
(12)
2 comments:
When people are told to wear protective gear...you wear it everywhere? Sleeping? How concerned are those whose job it is to makes sure soldiers comply with regulations in your suituation about clothing? Haircuts? Are there routine inspections? Formations? How much contact do you have with the guys you support? As much as you like? Is the officers and men concept still a pretty big deal? Or not? No alcohol. I forgot about that. How hard is this to enforce? Does anyone have local access? (meaning from the base out?) Are local people employed in any capacity?
Wow - that has to be a record number of questions in one paragraph :) When we have to wear the gear we wear it everywhere except in our rooms. Our rooms are all enclosed with blast barriers so it is pretty safe. The clothing, haircuts and such are handled pretty much like back home. In aviation we don't have a lot of formations, definitely not for inspections. That being said, you see everyone at work so if somebody has a messed up uniform or needs a haircut they will hear about it.
We have very little contact with anyone outside our unit. You may talk to the guys you are supporting on the phone if it is an unusual mission and need to work out some details but beyond that we just fly to the different areas, pick up people and stuff and drop it off somewhere else. The only talking we do is to tell the guy on the ground what we want loaded on what aircraft.
As far as the officers and enlisted concept goes, once again it is different in aviation. About a third of our company is officers and we spend a lot of time working directly with the enlisted guys so the relationship is much more relaxed.
I have no idea how hard the no alcohol restriction is to enforce. I haven't seen any over here so I guess it is working :)
The Marines and Army guys run patrols out of here every day but I have no idea how much contact they have with the locals - I have none. There may be some locals working on base but the vast majority are TCNs (third country nationals) form various African countries, India, Pakistan, Philippines and elsewhere.
Post a Comment