Comments on: 11 Oct 07 - DB http://bob.charlessutherland.com/2007/10/11/11-oct-07-db/ The Band of Brothers Tue, 07 Feb 2012 06:10:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: The Chuck http://bob.charlessutherland.com/2007/10/11/11-oct-07-db/#comment-22 The Chuck Wed, 17 Oct 2007 20:44:09 +0000 http://bob.charlessutherland.com/2007/10/11/11-oct-07-db/#comment-22 Andy quit his job as Sheriff of Mayberry, then in a surprise special election, Otis was voted in and took office, but as he became bored with the job, he went back to his old ways of and he was so drunk he couldn't control Barney, who loaded his guy and went around shooting folks for jaywalking and parking more than 10 inches from the curb. Many lives were saved when Barney shot himself in the foot while practicing the quick draw and had to spend some time in the hospital. Some of the folks who used to like Mayberry moved to Mt Pilot and started a new life. ----------------------------------------- I think you left just before the great target-arm coup. It’s all a blur, but I think CFIC was disbanded organizational, then merely functioned as a secondary mission . . . if that, in the sqadron. The school house went to block training, just like the fighters, and sorties got shorter, but airplanes broke more. They put a few cartoon characters in charge of most of the squadron, you had Majors trying to write paper on Lt Cols, because they were their supervisors . . . I guess the real cartoon characters were at the top. Nobody who was ever in the service, or in any other branch of the service would believe it really happened. Those who were there will never forget it. People were leaving as opportunities presented themselves. Prevailing wisdom was to move instructor upgrade to the unit, just like the fighters . . . the only problem was, the squadrons didn’t want it. They talked about putting a CFIC team in each squadron to deal with the instructor upgrade . . . of course we didn’t have 3 CFIC instructor teams at the time, and if we made some fast, and shipped them out, the 11th would be only 35% manned, instead of the 55% at the time. The DO at the time “w” was being advised by somebody that the only officers in the bomber world suitable to make any decision was a target-arm . . . all others, regardless of rank or knowledge was so much loose change. The squadron commander at the time, the one who officiated at your retirement, expressed those views as if they were his own. They even discussed banning the CFIC patch, because it “intimated” somebody. When I heard that, I couldn’t believe the system had degraded that much. But I was blind to the political process. We had a new OG come in and it turned out that he “liked” CFIC and talked nice about us. The squadron CC started to parrot those same words. But CFIC was dead in the water and nobody was at the helm. On 15 June 2003 . . . when everyone noticed how broke it was, they pushed for a reorgnization . . . which actually gave me a little power to fix a few things. We worked long hours, built something that could not survive an assault of the same energy as last time, howerver, it was less politically intimidating to the target-arms . . . . . . so maybe we’ll be okay, my health starting giving out, so I got out, bascially to avoid a MEB . . . which might have been a better thing to do than dealing with the VA since I retired in June 2006 and I still don’t have a rating . . . but no problem, it should be done in 60-90 days — that’s what they say ever time I call . . . every time . . . every time. Andy quit his job as Sheriff of Mayberry, then in a surprise special election, Otis was voted in and took office, but as he became bored with the job, he went back to his old ways of and he was so drunk he couldn’t control Barney, who loaded his guy and went around shooting folks for jaywalking and parking more than 10 inches from the curb. Many lives were saved when Barney shot himself in the foot while practicing the quick draw and had to spend some time in the hospital. Some of the folks who used to like Mayberry moved to Mt Pilot and started a new life.

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I think you left just before the great target-arm coup. It’s all a blur, but I think CFIC was disbanded organizational, then merely functioned as a secondary mission . . . if that, in the sqadron.

The school house went to block training, just like the fighters, and sorties got shorter, but airplanes broke more.

They put a few cartoon characters in charge of most of the squadron, you had Majors trying to write paper on Lt Cols, because they were their supervisors . . . I guess the real cartoon characters were at the top. Nobody who was ever in the service, or in any other branch of the service would believe it really happened. Those who were there will never forget it. People were leaving as opportunities presented themselves.

Prevailing wisdom was to move instructor upgrade to the unit, just like the fighters . . . the only problem was, the squadrons didn’t want it. They talked about putting a CFIC team in each squadron to deal with the instructor upgrade . . . of course we didn’t have 3 CFIC instructor teams at the time, and if we made some fast, and shipped them out, the 11th would be only 35% manned, instead of the 55% at the time.

The DO at the time “w” was being advised by somebody that the only officers in the bomber world suitable to make any decision was a target-arm . . . all others, regardless of rank or knowledge was so much loose change.

The squadron commander at the time, the one who officiated at your retirement, expressed those views as if they were his own. They even discussed banning the CFIC patch, because it “intimated” somebody. When I heard that, I couldn’t believe the system had degraded that much. But I was blind to the political process.

We had a new OG come in and it turned out that he “liked” CFIC and talked nice about us. The squadron CC started to parrot those same words. But CFIC was dead in the water and nobody was at the helm.

On 15 June 2003 . . . when everyone noticed how broke it was, they pushed for a reorgnization . . . which actually gave me a little power to fix a few things.

We worked long hours, built something that could not survive an assault of the same energy as last time, howerver, it was less politically intimidating to the target-arms . . .

. . . so maybe we’ll be okay, my health starting giving out, so I got out, bascially to avoid a MEB . . . which might have been a better thing to do than dealing with the VA since I retired in June 2006 and I still don’t have a rating . . . but no problem, it should be done in 60-90 days — that’s what they say ever time I call . . . every time . . . every time.

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