This really looks like a half assed competition. The aircraft don't look like they're "hot cocked" (in alert mode where they've been preflighted and ready to scramble), and they're using comm cords to talk to the pilots. Real world scrambles are much much faster than what's on the video. I've been part of scrambles…
No. That's the "Viper" hand signal. Think Dodgeball's "Purple Cobras", but they show the fangs with their fingers.
I'm guessing someone was a fan of the 90s show Viper.
Appropriate?
Finishing up high school near PoHo, I too was part of the, "Ugh, Flint? Don't go there!" era. I've stopped there a couple of times when I've driven through to visit family, and it wasn't that terrible. However, it's not someplace I'd personally live, and I own guns.
P-19s & P-23s usually.
No, not AT show center (safety issue, if a plane crashed into the crash truck...), but somewhere that they could get to show center in a reasonable amount of time. I'm trying to remember where they were during the airshows we had at DM when I was stationed there. My brother-in-law was a USAF firefighter during my time…
In all honesty, they should have had a crew on standby in the crash truck ready to roll somewhere away from the crowd but within a short distance of show center. A 2 1/2 minute response time during something like this is very bad.
Saab Draken
Not really production, but...
You poor, dumb, bastard.
I'm just gonna put this here...
This gif accurately describes what I did when I got out of that truck.
I did up near the beginning of the replies.
Yep. Reported it immediately, peed in a cup, blood drawn, etc. Faced "the man" (as shown above) and took my licks.
Yes, it went on my record until I went to a different base. There was a possibility they could have taken rank from me and made me pay for the wingtip (I used to know the exact cost, but it was just over $26000). That would've been a couple years pay and an E-3.
#wearenotalone
Nope. I got out in 2007. A-10 Crew Chief from 2000-2004 (2A353J), Comm Guy from 2004-2007 (3CO51). I do disaster Comms now.
