B-52 mistakenly loaded/flies with Nukes...idiots

[HAL Pilot]

Before I became the GQ OOD, my assigned station was in my nuke magazine. An excellent place to spend GQ because nobody could come down to see if we were playing all of the games....REFTRA GQ was easy.....until the GQ OOD got fired and I had to take his place.....

 

[HAL Pilot]

I guess the Air Force does paint their dummy nuke warheads. More of the story: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20926465/

 

[WVUBetaHornet]

I guess the Air Force does paint their dummy nuke warheads. More of the story: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20926465/

Damn...that's crazy..

 

[Swanee]

Looks like some people are about to lose their jobs over this.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/military/2007-10-18-b-52-flight_N.htm

 

[East]

Flight crew

I am curious if the complete flight crew is among those mentioned 5 Officers......

Anyone?

 

[FLYTPAY]

I am curious if the complete flight crew is among those mentioned 5 Officers......
Anyone?

I would guess/say no. I would think that the Mission Commander however would be among the fired.

On a totally different (but not wholly unrelated) topic... When I checked into my first fleet squadron, I was the pubs officer (among other things). While cleaning out the pubs locker to make room for the correct sectionals, etc... I came across about 10 flight manuals of some sort that covered the procedures for transporting nuclear weapons in the CH-46E. I tossed all but 1, with the thought that if the mission ever came up - we could photocopy the one we had. No one ever missed them.

Were they UNCLAS?

 

[phrogpilot73]

Were they UNCLAS?

Yup. There's not much classified in the Phrog world. Our Secret Tac is maye 1/2" thick...

 

[FLYTPAY]

Yup. There's not much classified in the Phrog world. Our Secret Tac is maye 1/2" thick...

Good, I would hate to see something go into the trashcan that should go into a burn bag....that never happens right?......When our squadron was on cruise, our Wing wookies came in to look at the spaces and found some stuff laying around that should have been burned....it got ugly.

 

[Mr. Blonde]

I read in one article that they were to be "fired". That wording confused me, does anyone know if this means they are being discharged or just sent to some desk job in Alaska or Greenland?

 

[llnick2001]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071019/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/nuclear_mistake

Not much to this, but its an update.

 

[KBayDog]

There's not much classified in the Phrog world. Our Secret Tac is maye 1/2" thick...

Yeah, and it is nothing more than an instruction manual for this:

 

[Flash]

I read in one article that they were to be "fired". That wording confused me, does anyone know if this means they are being discharged or just sent to some desk job in Alaska or Greenland?

Usually when someone is 'fired' from a job in the military they are relieved of their duties and sent out to pasture at some busy work staff job until they retire or leave the service, which usually is as soon as legally possible (usually there is not a choice involved, they are forced to retire or seperate). Unless a court-martial is involved, then jail might be the end result.

 

[Flash]

Yeah, and it is nothing more than an instruction manual for this:

That is way too high-tech for the Phrog, shouldn't it be something like this?

 

[KBayDog]

That is way too high-tech for the Phrog, shouldn't it be something like this?

^It was, at least until the turn of the century.

Back in 1985, the Delorean Motor Company merged with Boeing. This merger proved critical to the Phrog SLEP. After initial bidding and prototype delays, a contract was awarded in 1991 to Boeing-DMC to upgrade our avionics suite. Installation began in early 1999, with the last upgrade installed in 2003.

By the way, the pilot on the first flight was my wife, Morgan Fairchild. Yeah, that's the ticket.

 

[Mr. Blonde]

Thanks Flash :icon_smil