Posted on 11/05/2017 9:37:28 PM PST by budj
The production side of the company I work for will be working Thanksgiving. Our current customer required, in the contract, that we work 2 10 hours shifts per day, seven days a week, for the duration of the project. Our customer is a division of the U.S. government. Those who choose not to work those kinds of hours are free to pursue other employment opportunities. That’s just the way it is. I would be surprised to learn that Amazon is not a 24 hour a day 7 day a week company.
Yep. I mentioned the Navy troops because they still do the duty. The strategic bombers were pulled off Alert in September 1991 so the aircrews have not been pulling Alerts since that time.
I was the Chief of Safety of an Air Division at that particular time so we had to monitor the downloading of all the weapons from our Alert bombers and the de-fueling of the Alert tankers. The day after the entire operation was done the Alert Facility was empty and the sally port was left wide open. I drove my Safety vehicle right into the facility without being challenged by guards and without having to show my badge. It was a ghost town and made me feel uncomfortable and vulnerable.
I see pictures of what is left of those bomber/taker alert facilities and the "Christmas Trees"and it still makes me feel unsafe and a bit sad. Sad, because for decades thousands of people of many decades devoted their lives to keeping bombers and tankers on Alert, ready to fly in mere minutes. The constant pressure, training, evaluations, and sometimes anxiety when the klaxons actually sounded was a complete lifestyle, not just a job or even a duty, but a complete way of life. It was intense and in the end quite satisfying to know all the blood, sweat, tears, and grief was for something that was one of the most important things on the face of the earth.
“I work at the type of place you mentioned and honestly it makes me dread the holiday season anymore”
I would too. And I’m sure pretty many dread it too. but, unfortunately, this season of excess as somehow been perpetuated in our society and pretty much everyone seems to buy into its buying excess.
ROTFLOL!
cherry pick a single review from 17,000 reviews to “prove” your point.
instead, let’s look at the aggregate:
72% would recommend to a friend.
86% approve of the Jeff Bezos, the CEO.
But is that good or bad compared to other companes? Well, let’s compare amazon to the largest brick and mortar retailer in the U.S., Walmart, with 31,000 reviews:
56% would recommend to a friend.
68% approve of Doug McMillon, the CEO.
So, you see, there are worse places to work than amazon.
Actual facts can be a real bitch.
As I understand it, posted somewhere here is a thread that either announced a return to having ready bombers again, or DJT was considering it. I’m sure someone with a better grasp of our arcane search function can find it.
Basically an Internet hoax.
Of course there are plans for everything including placing bombers back on Alert but there have been no talks about implementing those plans.
I was a missileman at GFAFB from 1978-1982. Oh my, the stories we can tell, of freezing winds and torrential snows.
And ever single time Carter got his tail up, the missiles got re-targeted.
I started my Deuce time three years after you. I spent the greatest time pulling Alerts at C-0 but when I first became a Deputy I was at E-0 then A-0. Spent 2 1/2 days snowed in at A-0. Three weeks after I upgraded to Commander they sent me back out to C-0.
I kept a notebook with every Alert (TCC time and initials) and I pulled an Alert at every LCC in the Wing.
I do remember having to do a couple of emergency re-targets. It was actually exciting doing one for real rather than just in the Box. The new targets were interesting and when we were done I bet my Deputy where the targets were and then found them on a big map we had taped to the back of the Environmental Control System (by the bed) and I was correct.
At GFAFB?
Because I remember that map. That is how we tracked the re-targets.
Unless all of the them had a map at the same place.
Yep. At the Forks.
I can't remember if all LCCs had a map but I do know we had them up in the 446th. Some of the "lesser thinking" crew dogs had used pins to mark new targets so you could see small holes in the map from other Rev Changes or re-targets.
I hated GFAFB and North Dakota. I am from Texas and the coldest winter I ever had was a summer at GFAFB.
Why not Minot?
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