aomechmarine

??? I said there are different shops - we still ALL go to the same basic A school in Pensacola and then branch off to different "C" schools. What happened to "B" school? I don't know. I am a fully qual'd Ordie - All you need is your Explosives Handler physical, and then you get your Explosive Handlers Card. Im actually re-upping it this month. Its slightly different now tho, the card is also Explosive Driver as well. I had both formal training and authorization, still do. You have to touch Ordnance every few months or your quals expire. They also expire every few years anyway.

Never heard of a battle flexible deck. I believe you are talking about O level functions. My MOS code is 6541 - look it up, it'll say I'm I level.
I level repairs and fixes, and does the bulk of Preventative Maintenance on the Ordie stuff. I'm "technically" a mechanic/technician. Although most of the first couple years I was chained to a desk.

That might explain how I was part of a "more elite" part of Ordnance. not trying to brag, but I'm pretty smart. Worked against me. Ended up doing extra training and extra schooling, especially with paperwork. I hated it.

The paperwork job I was talking about? I would "build bombs" on paper, account for any and all munitions, rounds, peripherals. Order up what squadrons were using, keep track etc. Picked up one of my other MOS's - ASRS - Ammunition Stock Recording Specialist. I don't know the MOS code off hand, im sure it pops up on google tho. I worked directly with the Munitions shop, They ordered the stuff they were gonna use through me. So when I finished doing the bitchwork I hated, I'd always volunteer to stay longer and get my hands dirty so I at least felt like an average Marine instead of a desk jockey.

aomechmarine

When I was doing ASRS I worked with every service - Army, Navy, Air force, even Coast Guard. I'm pretty sure most O-level guys don't even know that job exists.

I can actually do the same job on the ground side and work as a "bullet counter" - that's what the Army guys were - MOS 89A.

My job requires a secret clearance so I can answer MOST of your questions - but some things I can neither confirm nor deny...

F-16 was my first BASIC specialization. I've since picked up a a crap ton. Ordnance is weird like that. You can pick up all kinds of quals, clearances, or permissions - its all need to know - QASO's, CDI's, Team Leaders, those are actual bomb builders. Have a couple of those. Then a crap ton of deskwork quals - Production Control(PC), ASRS, IMRL (Inventory management) Then I also picked up a lot of random jobs that have nothing to do with my original MOS.

I worked mostly on/closer to/relating to flightlines tho, not flightdecks. F-35's, JSF, F-18 is actually what I know the most.
Camp Pendleton is home to the ordnance "experimental weapons" division

aomechmarine

CIA Ordnance Specialist

https://www.cia.gov/careers/opportun...pecialist.html


Future job opportunities. I know a few people who left the military to work for "contractors" and they're making 6 figures. I basically hate this shit tho. I just love being a Marine

1killercls

Oh fuck...He is in Floriduh.

1killercls

fuck all that...Is the fucking chrome off yet?

justnspace

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Ken1997TL

Ken1997TL

Doubtful

oo7spy

Dude, don't sweat it. You have provided more evidence of your service than XLR8R ever has. Even if he did serve, how long ago was that? He's an old fart with old experience. He is probably too tired from getting up to pee 4 times a night to realize things change in a decade or two.

XLR8R

Well, that's confusing.

On the previous page you indicated you work on the F-16 in the present tense: ie. that you currently work on F-16s:

Now, after I asked how you work on an aircraft that does not exist in the Marine inventory, and is extremely rare in the Navy, you have changed your answer to the past tense. You now indicate that you haven't worked on the F-16 in quite a while:

How did you, as boot Marine Air Wing ordie, get initially assigned to an aircraft that does not exist in the Marine Corps and is extremely rare in the Navy?

And why did you change your F-16 assignment from present day to the past, when I questioned it?

Ok, just trying to keep up here.

So now you don't work on F-16s. Right now, you most definitely work on the F-35, JSF, and F-18, on the Camp Pendleton flight line. Got it.

So....If our national security can stand the blow.... how do you work on the Pendleton flightline, on jet fighters that are incapable of using the 6006 runway at Munn Field, and are not based there?

XLR8R

Lemme save you some time.

KNFG (Munn Field) prohibits jet aircraft training due to noise abatement and KNFG is not equipped for jet fighter operations.

Also, since you listed the aircraft you are trained on and "actually what I know the most", why did you refer to the Joint Strike Fighter and F-35 as 2 different aircraft?

1killercls

1Louder

This makes me want to get a tattoo of a chrome turbo that looks like an alternator.

97BlackAckCL

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XLR8R

The sun-flash should give you plenty of warning.

Rockstar21

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I came in here for tattooed women and landed in the middle of a marine scam of sorts?

2012wagon

Even better, cuz someone isn't a real Marine..and there are accusations flying.

I dont have enuogh popcorn for this

Rockstar21

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well fuck im invested now.. 2 comments deep... run this shit.

97BlackAckCL

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Ah screw it, this thread's already gone to hell...
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Flipster23

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Don't forget that fuckin Chrome on the civic!

Hashtag that shit bruh!!

2012wagon

^^
Best invention of this century. Fake B pillar chrome. Even cholos don't do that.

svtmike

BoostedMech?

97BlackAckCL

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TacoBello

Hmmm... I just witnessed a tumbleweed go by AOs screen. The silence is deafeningly eerie.

97BlackAckCL

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Devil Dog 21

Just post a copy of your ID so we can get back to chromed out civics and tramp stamps

XLR8R

Well of course, OPSEC, COMSEC. They hammer that relentlessly. I understand.

But ya know...US military armaments research is pretty well documented. For instance there is the Army Armament Research Development and Engineering Center, with 5 locations in the east. pica.army.mil/ardec/locations

The US Naval Research Laboratory is in Washington DC, with satellites at Stennis Space Center, Miss., and Monterey, Calif. .nrl.navy.mil/

The US Marine Corps Forces Pacific Experimentation Center (MARFORPAC) is at Camp Smith, HI, with satellites at Kaneohe Bay, HI and Twenty Nine Stumps, CA. thesecuritynetwork.org/Breault

There doesn't appear to be public acknowledgement of experimental armaments research at Camp Pendleton; a base which is typically open to anyone with a driver license....

Did you just reveal the existence of a Top Secret research facility?

That may hurt your chances for that medal you were talking about.

1killercls

OMG so fucking

Majofo

This popcorn is getting stale..

1Louder

It's gettin' real up in here.

97BlackAckCL

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ttribe

justnspace

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NBP04TL4ME

Can you say

Ken1997TL

Back to Trampstamps!

Rockstar21

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I am disappoint.

97BlackAckCL

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XLR8R

Certainly. Always glad to help:

XLR8R

I checked her out and I can verify that she's legit. She passed the oral exam.

aomechmarine

How did I get chosen? Simple. Someone has to do the bitchwork for the higher ups, I was the smartest one out of the new booty, I got the bitchwork job. Dude that Bradley Manning kid was a fucking PFC and yet he had access to Top Secret computers where he was left alone to just rip intell onto blank CD's. There's low ranking guys keeping the military going every day of the week.

I don't work on the same thing all the time. Needs of the military.
I don't think you understand what I do. I simply work on weapons and the peripherals. I'm a jack of all trades when it comes to this. As I explained, there are many shops and may quals you can pick up in the shops. One of those basic quals is transporting weapons to and from the BUA (build up area) and a drop off point - wherever that may be. Just because I may or may not build up, work on, store and inventory, or simply do the paperwork on a weapon or device in location A does not mean it will be used in location A. Ive transported Ordnance across state lines before, no big deal, happens all the time.

Working with experimental weapons may not necessarily involve flight operations. For example, the unit has to be checked that it will actually fit the peripherals that currently exist. If not, new ones may be designed to replace old ones. In that type of a situation you may work with a lot of civilians who basically shadow you and make note of all that stuff - Tech Reps. They're usually prior service guys. They also note how we do stuff to make sure how the intended designed for the stuff actually will be followed through on the military members part.

Ive also worked with stuff I was literally not allowed to know what it looked like, or what it was capable of doing. Didn't need to know.


The weapons systems and mission are different in every area. For example - while Stationed in mainland Japan there was heavier emphasis on certain weapons due to North Korea and China being our main concerns there.
If I was or was not stationed in an American Joint Base - then the weapons and mission would tend to be different. At least what a lowly paperpusher or new Marine would be privy to.

If I'm coming off as a loudmouth bragger I apologize. If im being vague, that is my intention. As I stated, I can be specific on certain lame things, and not on others.