Quote:
Originally Posted by mlee
It's Velcro'd on... try working on the flightline at night with vehicles moving everywhere.
Pulls off off and it goes in your pocket in the day time. Safety first... in the military too.
|
During Desert Storm, 2 people got killed from getting hit by forklifts at night on the flight-line. I joined in 96' so we were still going to Turkey, Kuwait, and Saudi Arabia. Reflective Belts was the answer.
If you ever been on the flight line at night during a launch (10-16 jets taxiing/taking off) It can be pretty crazy, Each section has a truck, to respond to problems the pilots might have while they are starting up and turning on their systems. There is 2 crew chief trucks, a specialist truck, and a weapons truck, these trucks respond to "red-balls" then you have the production-superintendent (super) truck which coordinates thru OPs and the other drivers the problems. Then you have QA who drives around, AGE who delivers equipment to work on the aircraft, a Tow-team for when a jet breaks down at end-of-runway (EOR), emergency vehicles if there is a Inflight Emergency (IFE). weapons guys driving jammers (bomb-lift trucks) and this is just for one squadron, now magnify this by 10 during exercises, or 100 while deployed with 5-10 other fighter squadrons, from different countries and different services all on the same flight-line, and its orchestrated chaos