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You might be a maintainer if...

1. You've ever slept on the concrete under a wing

2. You've ever said, "Oh yes sir, it's supposed to look like that."

3. You've ever sucked LOX to cure a hangover.

4. You know what JP4/JP8 tastes like.

5. You've ever used a grease pencil to fix an overworn tire.

6. You have a better benchstock in the pockets of your coveralls than the supply system.

7. You've ever used a piece of safety wire as a toothpick.

8. You've ever had to say, "My boots are still black!" (or ever
spray-painted them black)

9. You refer to a pilot as a "stick actuator."

10. You've ever been told to go get "some prop wash and a yard of
flightline."

11. You've ever worked a 14 hour shift on a aircraft that isn't flying the next day.

12. You've ever said "as long as she starts every other try you'll be fine
sir."

13. You believe the aircraft has a soul.

14. You talk to the aircraft.

15. You've ever said, "That nav light burned out after launch."

16. You've ever used a wheel chock as a hammer.

17. The only thing you know about any city is where the good bars are.

18. You know more about your coworkers than you do about your own family.

19. You've ever looked for pictures of "your" aircraft in aviation books.

20. You can't figure out why maintenance officers exist.

21. You ever wished the pilot would just say, "Great aircraft!"

22. You take it as a badge of honor to be just called "a Det Hound."

23. You relieve yourself more often outdoors than indoors.

24. You can't comprehend why everyone doesn't want to be a Maintainer.

25. You think everyone who isn't a Maintainer is a wimp....

Dice....you posted that list like the things in it were unsual. LOL

"face it....perhaps your only purpose in life is to serve as a warning to others!"

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Dice....you posted that list like the things in it were unsual. LOL

"face it....perhaps your only purpose in life is to serve as a warning to others!"
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Just wanted people on the forums to understand my world view!! <img src=newicons/bounce.gif border=0 align=middle>

#25 Should have been...."You think everyone who isn't a Maintainer is a non-er.






Being responsible means sometimes pissing people off.
Gen Colin Powell ret

Especially those Non-er types that work close to the maintainers and think they are but aren't.
Cheers
db

Being responsible means sometimes pissing people off.
Gen Colin Powell ret

That clinches it...30MM Jr <b>is</b> a maintainer!<img src=icon_smile_approve.gif border=0 align=middle>

Hajji, you can run, but why die tired?

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will plow for those who do not.\"
- Thomas Jefferson

I always try to remember my hammock so I dont have to sleep on the tarmack. You save an ache in your back, but you get a real headache ifin you stand up into a pylon.

By this time tomorrow I shall have gained either a pearage or Westminster Abbey........Nelson

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You should also add:

26: You've ever fallen asleep getting ready to pull chocks.
27: To amuse yourself, you think up wild ways to marshall!

I'll e-mail the video if you guys wanna see that! The things we do to keep ourselves sane over here!!

"If all the commercials say: 'An Army of One', why am I surrounded by the fools!?"

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Put on your tinfoil hats, the black choppers are coming, and I'm calling them in.
Former DCC OA-10A T/N 80-278

Hey what the hell you guys got against a noon-er?

Like honey, i'll swing by after lunch for a noon-er,



It's all about the Noon-er's baby!



"The power to Destroy the planet, is insignifigant to the power of the Air Force----Mudd Vader

28. YOU KNOW YOUR A MAINTAINER IF YOUR WIFE CALLS YOUR JET YOUR "MISTRESS"
29. YOU HAVE A PICTURE OF YOUR JET NEXT TO YOUR KIDS ON THE MANTEL
30. YOU THREATEN TO KICK SOMEONES ASS OVER BURNNING OFF YOUR #1 ENGINE COVERS STRAPS
31. IF YOU RUB YOUR JETS BELLY WHILE TALKING TO IT.
32. YOU KNOW YOUR A MAINTAINER WHEN YOU CAN STUFF MORE LUGGAGE IN A TRAVEL POD THEN A SMALL JETLINER.

PRESS TO TEST

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30MM Jr is home for the Holiday and I showed him your list, dice. He admitted to 20 of the 25! He also added that you're a KC-135 maintainer when you tell the major "Sorry , Sir, the bunk in the back is for the crew chiefs" and then as a A1C crawl into it while he's watching and sleep all the way to the Azores!<img src=newicons/bounce.gif border=0 align=middle><img src=newicons/saevil.gif border=0 align=middle><img src=icon_smile_big.gif border=0 align=middle>

Hajji, you can run, but why die tired?

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\"Those who hammer their guns into plows
will plow for those who do not.\"
- Thomas Jefferson

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30MM Jr is home for the Holiday and I showed him your list, dice. He admitted to 20 of the 25! He also added that you're a KC-135 maintainer when you tell the major "Sorry , Sir, the bunk in the back is for the crew chiefs" and then as a A1C crawl into it while he's watching and sleep all the way to the Azores!<img src=newicons/bounce.gif border=0 align=middle><img src=newicons/saevil.gif border=0 align=middle><img src=icon_smile_big.gif border=0 align=middle>

Hajji, you can run, but why die tired?
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Hehe good one 30mm, tell Jr. we all say hi and I hope you guys have a nice holiday together!! <img src=newicons/smiley_salute.gif border=0 align=middle>