If you have ever been a Sheriff in an old, lawless western town, then you know exactly what I'm going through here. Some of you know where I am and others don't but the important part is knowing that I absolutely hate it here and need to be back home.
My job is simple. Matter of fact most every other career field in the Air Force thinks we are knuckle dragging idiots but facts are we are the only ones given a gun and entrusted to make the hard decisions on when to use it. Back to what I was saying, my job is simple. I enforce laws and regulations. When a cop pulls you over and tells you you were speeding, for the most part you know exactly where it was he caught you and that he should have been clocking you about 5 miles before that because you were speeding even more back there. I do the same thing, only when I tell someone that they are in the wrong, they believe whole hearted that I am wrong. They also believe that they can throw any officer rank and name at me and think I'll crap my pants and just let them do what they want to do. Fact is, I don't give a flying F*@&!!!!
That's my life right now. I had to respond to a call from the tower (Who think we are at their beckon call by the way) about an aircraft moving spots on the flight line. They wanted me to make contact with the individuals, who's aircraft it was, and scold them for not letting the tower know that they were moving the thing 20 feet. I still don't know why. Fast forward about 3 days........whooooosh........I get a call from one of my guys who is very good about doing his job. He tells me that some guy will not and actually refused to get out and do a FOD check before entering the flight line. For those that don't know, FOD is Foreign Objects and Debris, or in other words, rocks stuck in your tires that can get sucked into the intake of an aircraft and ruin it. So its my job to show up, scold the individual who is being dumb, thank my troops for doing their jobs and then try not to pull all my hair out because I've been reduced to Rock Police. And get crap from people about it.
If you were to put up a sign that says Do Not Cross This Gap In The Pavement......Lava Will Kill You If You Do, in the Air Force there would be charred bodies lying about and one cop sitting at the edge trying to stop other from crossing the gap. And every last one of them would say, "But I have to go this way, I go this way everyday, for years now!" An out and out lie I know, but for some reason they still do it. I talked to a Lt. Col the other day who wanted to bring a vehicle onto the flightline, I asked where his vehicle pass was that allowed him to drive it on the flightline.
He says, "To be honest i just stole this vehicle and I have no clue if there is a pass,"
"Kudos for the honesty there Col. but I can't let you on without a pass," was my reply.
He then says," But I'm just going right there, its not really that far onto the flightline"
so I say, "Well sir, park the vehicle right over here on the outside of the flightline and walk."
He says, "Are you really going to make me walk," and maneuvered to show me his rank yet again.
And I say, "But sir, its just right there, i mean its not even that far onto the flightline."
He drove away and didn't even come onto the flightline at all. Baby.
This is the crap i have to deal with on a daily basis. Everyone is special and deserves special treatment and anything me or my co-workers say isn't important and doesn't matter. Kinda makes me feel like I don't need to be here.....I'm done playing I wanna go home now.....
till later
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