I'm not shocked anymore, sadly. My time in the AF taught me that contracting officers never do their job well. They see so far ahead that they're planning for their own post-retirement jobs while letting shoddy crap slip through. F-35, B-29, and so many other vehicles/weapon systems slipped right through that should've gone back to be finished up. Instead the young men and women have to deal with shoddy crap being pushed at them while being told to make it work while proven systems that don't produce the big bucks anymore, A-10s, are chucked aside. Kind of like the recent choices by hospitals to use remdesivir ("Run-death-is-near") to treat COVID when ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine(sp?) was already available and proven effective. 🤷♂️
With luck, we'll find out who was making those crap welds and who in QA and management were letting them slip by. 🤬
Sounds like we need to follow the steps of the American Indians and bring back the gauntlet. Picture some never do well welder having to run through a path lined with pissed off sailers armed with saps, clubs, e-tools and torque wrenches? The image brings a smile to this old soldier. Teach the clowns that make the tools of war to FEAR the E4 Mafia!!
Well, the CYA has already begun. And the folks that I know that work at Newport News and Huntington are suspiciously absent from any social media…
I'm not shocked anymore, sadly. My time in the AF taught me that contracting officers never do their job well. They see so far ahead that they're planning for their own post-retirement jobs while letting shoddy crap slip through. F-35, B-29, and so many other vehicles/weapon systems slipped right through that should've gone back to be finished up. Instead the young men and women have to deal with shoddy crap being pushed at them while being told to make it work while proven systems that don't produce the big bucks anymore, A-10s, are chucked aside. Kind of like the recent choices by hospitals to use remdesivir ("Run-death-is-near") to treat COVID when ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine(sp?) was already available and proven effective. 🤷♂️
With luck, we'll find out who was making those crap welds and who in QA and management were letting them slip by. 🤬
There was a law back in ye olden days. Something about if a building collapsed then the architect/builder was liable, possibly of murder.
This should have SEVER criminal consequences for the welders AND the supervisors AND the inspectors!
This is arguably treason and is completely unacceptable.
But it is completely in keeping with the the current society wide disregard of honor, self-respect, and morality.
I wish that I could be suprised by this. But I'm still bloody well angered by it.
That should read "severe" not "sever" but severing them might be appropriate too. :)
Sounds like we need to follow the steps of the American Indians and bring back the gauntlet. Picture some never do well welder having to run through a path lined with pissed off sailers armed with saps, clubs, e-tools and torque wrenches? The image brings a smile to this old soldier. Teach the clowns that make the tools of war to FEAR the E4 Mafia!!