Any MacDill guys? Tanker crew chief guys -135 type
10-30-2008, 08:13 PM
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Any MacDill guys? Tanker crew chief guys -135 type My wife recently PCS'd to MacDill shes pharmacy. Anyway im a crew chief and never worked tankers before.I am at RAFM right now and worked RC-135 my whole career. My deros is Jun 09. Im a little curious about the tanker world. I heard your gone all the time which I am very much used to already. Ex tanker dudes here say I could do all kinds of stuff which I know but I really want to know is if they let techs crew. I was told techs dont crew in the tanker world. Is this true?
10-31-2008, 12:26 PM
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I went to visit the fam at Apollo Beach near Tampa, was not what I expected especially the general area. Really spread out. Nice though but I rather be closer to Hawaii if it was up to me. BAH is killer there 2 Techs make $3,100 something a month. Pretty pimp.
11-03-2008, 07:25 PM
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Yeah your not lieing when you say you deploy a lot. I supported 135's in Kyrgyzstan, Turkey & UAE and the crew cheifs there were telling me how much they deploy. Pretty nuts but I bet its awesome money/experience wise. The Guard has is made.. from what I've seen.
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11-04-2008, 01:29 PM
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i am stationed @ macdill a hydro troop. and there are a lot of tech that crew. we are not a big squadron and AMC acts like we are so we get tasked pretty heavy. If things are rotating right you can be sure to make it to the desert once a year.
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11-09-2008, 04:02 AM
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Once a year? That is pretty good. Better then twice a year that I am used to. I hope I go flt line no tellin though, yet. I hear a lot of complaints from MacDill and how mgt sucks blah blah blah. I sure no where is perfect in the AF.
12-13-2008, 08:21 AM
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Im in town now visiting the family. Damn the BX is run down! I wonder when was the last time that place got remodeled. I got kinda lost one day trying to find the hospital. I thought I was on the road that followed the water ended up going by a water tank then driving all over.
I seen a red TA a cop was getting into it near a parking lot by the gate next to the water. Well when I get my cars down here I hope to find someone that aint scared to throw the hammer down or cruise a little bit.
I seen a red TA a cop was getting into it near a parking lot by the gate next to the water. Well when I get my cars down here I hope to find someone that aint scared to throw the hammer down or cruise a little bit.
12-13-2008, 10:59 AM
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12-22-2008, 11:42 PM
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Im a tanker crew chief a grand forks though. Tankers are definitly gona alot lots of tdys all over the place and lots of desert rotations depending on your location. I know at gf we send our techs on the road so im sure macdill does since they are smaller.
12-23-2008, 02:51 PM
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Ahhh, MacDill! Two tours there for 13 years! They forced me out of there about two years ago. I did my last 4 years in the OG, only deployed with the 135's once to Manas. I really enjoyed it, but I'm not maintenance. I liked the town more than the job, lots of fun stuff to do in Tampa/St. Pete. The BX does kind of suck, it's a little bit run down, but it's run well and the prices are good - we didn't realize how nice it was until we pcs'd to Davis-Monthan. The BX is new here, but not run nearly as well as the one in MacDill. The housing is nice too, but as a mil to mil couple you'd be silly not to live off base!
12-23-2008, 05:40 PM
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Oh yeah im living off base. Money will be good then. Crappy thing is that the BAH rate went down 2% for MacDill. So we will be amking 50 bucks less. Still quite a bit more then most states. I hope I will be able to retire out of there. I only got 8 years left. Maybe more I guess depending on the economy.
