If you've heard this one before, don't stop me. I want to hear it again
Sometime in 1993: young USAF SSgt KellyinAvon is a Supply Troop at Taegu Air Base, RoK and is one of the 27 Blue Suiters on a Korean Air Force Base.
One day I borrowed the Aerospace Ground Equipment (AGE) Superintendent's government vehicle (GOV). Not sure where our 1/2 ton Chevy pickup or 1-ton Chevy flat-bed was, but I borrowed Ken's pickup. It was an (IIRC) a 1988 Chevy S-10 with a 2.8L fuel injected V-6 (had the badge below the grill.) Fuel injected V-6 in an S-10? This thing should get up and go. It did not, I mean it was running awful. When I got back I told him that it was running like complete ****. He had just got it back from vehicle maintenance, who were Korean Contractors.
Now this was before we had an old boy from Tennessee who was an actual mechanic as the contract quality assurance evaluator. We had a fleet manager schnook (who didn't know a torque wrench from a cutting torch) masquerading as a Vehicle Maintenance NCO so the fleet pretty much was ****. Don't get me wrong, the AGE maintenance contractors were really good. The Civil Engineering contractors were really good. The WRM contractors were really good. The ROKAF Munitions Maintenance Troops who maintained our WRM munitions were awesome. The Vehicle Maintenance contractors SUCKED CANAL WATER!!
The next day Ken (who I also ran into in Qatar in 2005, but that's another post) comes into the Supply Office. He asks me if I could order the spark plugs for his truck so he could change them. That was the easiest thing I did that day, maybe a week later we got the plugs in.
After we got the spark plugs in he came in later that day. It was running so bad because it had three different spark plugs, and they were all wrong!!
It was so great when we got an actual mechanic as a Vehicle Maintenance NCO. He rode the contractors hard every day and actually got them to do their jobs.
Sometime in 1993: young USAF SSgt KellyinAvon is a Supply Troop at Taegu Air Base, RoK and is one of the 27 Blue Suiters on a Korean Air Force Base.
One day I borrowed the Aerospace Ground Equipment (AGE) Superintendent's government vehicle (GOV). Not sure where our 1/2 ton Chevy pickup or 1-ton Chevy flat-bed was, but I borrowed Ken's pickup. It was an (IIRC) a 1988 Chevy S-10 with a 2.8L fuel injected V-6 (had the badge below the grill.) Fuel injected V-6 in an S-10? This thing should get up and go. It did not, I mean it was running awful. When I got back I told him that it was running like complete ****. He had just got it back from vehicle maintenance, who were Korean Contractors.
Now this was before we had an old boy from Tennessee who was an actual mechanic as the contract quality assurance evaluator. We had a fleet manager schnook (who didn't know a torque wrench from a cutting torch) masquerading as a Vehicle Maintenance NCO so the fleet pretty much was ****. Don't get me wrong, the AGE maintenance contractors were really good. The Civil Engineering contractors were really good. The WRM contractors were really good. The ROKAF Munitions Maintenance Troops who maintained our WRM munitions were awesome. The Vehicle Maintenance contractors SUCKED CANAL WATER!!
The next day Ken (who I also ran into in Qatar in 2005, but that's another post) comes into the Supply Office. He asks me if I could order the spark plugs for his truck so he could change them. That was the easiest thing I did that day, maybe a week later we got the plugs in.
After we got the spark plugs in he came in later that day. It was running so bad because it had three different spark plugs, and they were all wrong!!
It was so great when we got an actual mechanic as a Vehicle Maintenance NCO. He rode the contractors hard every day and actually got them to do their jobs.