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 to realize it was all a good joke.
In today’s Air Force you have to wonder where all these jokers went that
pulled tricks like this years ago. 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
Last Updated: Monday, April 10, 2006 09:52 am