Stupid chocolate cake.(air force)(Column)

From: Approach | Date: January 1, 2006| Author: Wiseman, Chris | Copyright information

This story takes place during a weekend in March 2004. I was the safety officer at VF-31, and we were deep in the heart of our work-up cycle for a summer WestPac deployment.

The squadron maintenance officer (MO) and I finally had a plan for a weekend cross-country trip. We built a reasonable training plan to get us down to Atlanta, exercising some of the systems in the aircraft, so we could log the appropriate training codes, and submitted the cross-country request. The ...

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