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Message: <blockquote data-quote="capnkirk462" data-source="post: 4361344" data-attributes="member: 45148"><p>There was a good reason everyone call the F16 a yard dart. But after trouble shooting the F16 everything else was easy, it was like running with weights on after you took them off you could really go great. The one that got me was one day I was up at the floor supervisors desk messing around and found a mysterious piles of documents. Well they were from our frenemies at General Dynamics, started reading them and low and behold it was about phantom failures on our testers. Told us to ignore certain fail numbers on our tester. I was the lead troubleshooter in our shop and had to ask "How long have you all had these?" reply "a couple months, never got around to reading them." I just started to laugh. Went around the shop and out to the Awaiting Parts shed, came back and told them there was 48 missile launchers that we could return to service really quickly. Saved my shop 81,000 dollars, got my own inbox at the desk, became the swing shift Dull Sword paper guy, and probably other punishments/rewards that I can't remember. The Air Force in Europe during the cold war was weird, I was just an E-3 at this time, we all had  responsibility above than what rank we wore. Got to Hill AFB and they looked at my training records in disbelief. It was a great time of my life though.</p></blockquote><p></p>