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When it happened, we fell out of the sky. In a four engine jet transport. This can’t be happening was my first thought as the aircraft shuddered shook and fell. Alarms were going off. I imagined it would be right out of a bugs bunny cartoon with all of us screaming as the airplane dropped thousands of feet. It was deadly quiet on the flight deck as we all struggled to fly the jet. Passengers, rest assured your flight crew will never give up. We made it, talked about it later over beers in the bar. True story fuck you at least I lived a life.

When it happened, we fell out of the sky. In a four engine jet transport. This can’t be happening was my first thought as the aircraft shuddered shook and fell. Alarms were going off. I imagined it would be right out of a bugs bunny cartoon with all of us screaming as the airplane dropped thousands of feet. It was deadly quiet on the flight deck as we all struggled to fly the jet. Passengers, rest assured your flight crew will never give up. We made it, talked about it later over beers in the bar. True story fuck you @0k at least I lived a life.

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What made you switch from being a tank gunner to making the anouncements on a passenger plane?

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I was sitting out in the desert repairing my tank. The maintenance section didn’t have a enough people to send a team out to rescue my tank. They drove by dropped off tools and parts and sped off into the desert. Well, I fixed it. I wanted back into the fun. Later, I blew the engine/transmission pack. Now we had to have support. I prepped my tank to remove the engine pack. Maintenance showed up with the Crane and a replacement engine. Two things happened at the same time, the maintenance sergeant was talking about the USAF and that one could train as a Flight Engineer and get to fly. Also, I was complemented on the skill I had shown prepping my tank for an engine swap. The maintenance platoon was looking for good mechanics. He promised he would talk to the battalion commander and get me transferred! I enjoyed being a gunner, I was not a mechanic, I prefer to break tanks, not fix them. I immediately went to talk to an Air Force recruiter and I was on my way. Blowing shit up was fun, flying is way better.

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So you and are both tank gunners turned flight engineers? There must be a bunch of you if 2 are on Poal. Sounds like a guy can walk onto the airbase, say 'im a tank gunner let me fly' and they will say 'your F35 is in bay 7 buddy..' The military, what an institution, 'be more than you can be'.

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I’m one and the same, AOU has banned all my accounts because he/it thinks I’m a zogbot. To answer your question! No you can’t just walk off the street and become a flight engineer. I had to pass several tests and a flight physical. It took two years to become a fully qualified flight engineer. The washout rate was horrendous. I started in a class of 28 and only two of us finished on schedule. 14 were washed back but eventually passed. They other 12 failed outright. USAF takes flying seriously.

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Ok, that was funny. Now leave me the fuck alone.

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You started it...

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It’s a sudden change of wind speed or direction. Some times both at the same time. It’s terrifying. It’s hard to identify and respond too. Never the less fuck I survived each and every frightening event.