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Originally Posted by Ultramaroon
@ woode, Navy still use the 5-part VIDS-MAF?
@ Tcoat, I was an aviation electronics tech but when I was deployed it was all-hands whenever necessary. Done my share of engine changes, landing gears, blah blah blah.
None of the mechs or airframers ever helped me align an antenna pedestal, though! ...not bitter about it.
Oh, and supply? Half our parts came straight from the bone yard. |
For us it was more a case of you had to be more generalized as we didn't have the numbers to have too many specialties.
When I did a training exchange with the US, at the base in Mannheim, in the 70s the difference really stood out. That one base had more people, vehicles and aircraft then we had in the whole Canadian Forces put together at the time.
I worked with one guy that had been in for 6 years and had only ever worked a recovery wrecker and hadn't even been behind the wheel of another vehicle other then the old (new then) M151s that almost everybody drove. Whereas I, with just under a year in, had driven ambulances, fuelers, wreckers, semis, staff car and several other assorted vehicles and assignments.
Guess the same sort of thing applies to carriers as the resources are more limited so everybody has to multi task.
Funny you said about the mechs though as I just had to deal with a millwright that refused to move a battery powered insect sprayer about 4 feet over on a wall because it was "electric powered" and should be an electrician's job.