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DASH-9 SUPPLEMENT
Bill Hamilton
Well here's another 'Tall-Tail' with photos and data to match. Sometime back in the mid-90's one of our crews was tasked to go to the Cleveland Air Show. I didn't go but heard all the great stories about the fun time they had and about them trying to load the Oscar Mayer Weenie Wagon on board complete with pictures.
The wagon was actually too tall to go inside the C-141 but that didn't stop them from trying and snapping a few pictures. When they got back and showed me the pictures I came up with a great idea ... an Operational Supplement for the C-141 dash-9 flight manual loading instructions. I took the photos and scanned them while typing a word document that used the same format and fonts.
Boy was that fun, but the best part was making a copy
and slipping into our
wing DOV loadmaster's 'V-file'. He was a very
excitable type to start with and
this just made it even more fun. He nearly went
through the roof. He could not
believe that the Air Force would waste good money
hauling the Oscar Mayer
Weenie wagon around and ranted about that for a
while but what really upset him
was the fact that he didn't know ahead of time and
the supplement just showed
up in his V-file. About time he calmed down he
noticed the number sequence of
the supplement and couldn't understand why they had
skipped a few which really
worried him because now his books were way of date.
It took several hours to
calm him down and for him to realize it was all a good joke.
In today's Air Force you have to wonder where all
these jokers that pulled
tricks like this years ago went. One of them made it to
CMSgt .. I know
because it was me and today I get on to my young
troops for doing the same
things I did nearly 30 years ago as a youngster.
'Bundle' Bill Hamilton