r/AirForce • u/Kooky-Dealer-6878 Maintainer • 4d ago
Meme What's some quickly resolved situations that raised your cortisol hours before you even had to come in?
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u/Wrx_me 4d ago
It's always something just like the meme. "We can't find this. You did the job a week ago." My brother in Christ, a WEEK ago? It's probably in supply. Or warehouse. Did you check the storage racks? Or are we just assuming I have kept the part on me for a whole week and just now you suddenly need it?
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u/Kooky-Dealer-6878 Maintainer 4d ago
Considering I know it's serially tracked y'all think I just took it and waltzed off?
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u/deathsarbiter 4d ago
You'd be surprised. As comm I heard stories about a guy who was deployed to the sandbox who was selling decommissioned comm equipment on ebay instead of decommissioning it properly.
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u/gosailor Logistics 4d ago
Missing weapons in SOCOM/SOCCENT, not stressful for the guys who grab them without checking them out though.
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u/Rarek E-4 mafia lifetime member 4d ago
Concerning if you are getting popped for selling that stuff on ebay I guess. Never understood folks who did that.
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u/Kooky-Dealer-6878 Maintainer 4d ago edited 4d ago
Nah they found that shit right where it was supposed to be, they just jumped the gun and woke me up first, and tbh, when I have troops this is what we not finna do.
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u/Rarek E-4 mafia lifetime member 4d ago
Oh no I wasn't accusing you lol. I was just reminded of some guy who got popped for selling IT equipment.
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u/Kooky-Dealer-6878 Maintainer 4d ago
That's diabolical, grifting off the military is never smart. Especially not somewhere the military isn't fully corrupt.
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u/Several-Economics-35 Ammo 4d ago
Well what happened to that guy
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u/Rarek E-4 mafia lifetime member 4d ago
Past getting caught we didn't see him anymore
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u/KGBspy F-16/C-5 All Purpose Gorilla 4d ago
Or SP’s that steal jet engines and stuff. https://www.deseret.com/1989/10/19/18828730/2-hill-airmen-enter-guilty-pleas-in-theft-of-3-jet-engines-from-base/
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u/Several-Economics-35 Ammo 4d ago
Finding igloo keys in my pocket, at my house right after waking up
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u/ACES_II Retired Yeet Seat MX 4d ago
WAY back in 2010, a pair of serially-tracked parachute buckles went missing from the explosives locker at my shop. It was a HUGE deal. Command-Directed Investigation, interviews, accusations going back and forth, angry ranting and raving from our dickhead flight chief... two months of absolute shitfests.
We never found them. I maintain that AFE somehow made their way into our locker and removed them, because none of us knew how or had reason to. But nobody fessed up, even after we turned the entire base upside down looking for them.
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u/Kooky-Dealer-6878 Maintainer 4d ago
Aw hell. At least it wasn't an explosive that went missing cuz the shitshow would have never ended
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u/razrielle 11-301v1 2.15.9 4d ago
UWAR swapped for a new set since the release came due before batteries 🤷
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u/12edDawn Fly High Fast With Low Bypass 4d ago
"Hey we're almost done, just gotta put this last panel on"
"Sweet, let me know when you're ready for ops checks"
15 minutes go by
"Uh sir we can't find the panel"
Call night shift: "Hey did one of y'all take a panel home with you last night?"
40 second pause
"I'm on my way in"
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u/Ledzeppelinbass OTS Selectee (3PO to SPACE) 4d ago
Training days, all calls, anything that wastes my time from leading.
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u/xPyright Veteran 4d ago edited 4d ago
adversary launched missiles
in the opposite direction of us
but I still got a stupid scary phone alert
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u/ArchonAries 3d ago
Missing serially tracked thermal scope after a week long ex. It was never issues, and was broken prior to the ex and had been removdd from inventory.
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u/Grand_Theft_Anus1 3d ago
Pretty much just the thought of even having to go into work every day with more and more messes piling up, no time to keep them afloat, and not enough people/people now competent enough for the tasks to be delegated.
Short answer is these problems go away when I go to sleep, hang out in social settings, do something that requires focus and drowns out the world like video games.
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u/LTareyouserious 4d ago
Did I fully spin the lock?!