i just called the SQCP (squadron command post) for my in-time/work-station tomorow...7am/vehicle-commander.
At this point, allow me to elaborate:
As when i was a regular, there are no fixed shifts or in-time when one works in a fighter squadron. Only when the day is done and the Controller distributes available manpower according to the next day's mission requirements, will one know.
On with the story. The v-comm's primary job is this: sit tight beside the driver and ensure the vehicle gets to where it's going...in 1 piece. Sounds simple?
Yet one fateful night in 1998, a pickup crashed into a fire hydrant sitting on the grass verge beside the aircraft taxi way... resulting in a badly dented front fender and water erupting from the ground 15m into the air...and what a sight it was...
An investigation was carried out with the causal factors narrowed down to fatigue, inadequate lighting and worst of all, the said pickup exceeding twice the speed limit.
The driver and v-comm were 'awarded' 3 extra guard duties and each fined half of all repair costs.Simply put...equal misery.
The discerning reader would have surmised by now, the identity of the said v-comm...;)
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