Ya know what the smell of diesel smoke reminds me of, that smell similar to a truck stop parking lot? Being in the well deck when they were firing up the vehicles. It was vented well but it still stunk heavily. That jet fuel smoke smell reminds me of waiting on our Air Force transport. The Air force used Air Force time that us Marines could never quite understand. It usually was 4 to 12 hours behind our time but it varied greatly, with some times being come back tomorrow time after a 12 hour wait time. Now this was only transport planes. I don’t know about the rest.
MAC, now AMC (I think), seemed to always run on their own schedule.
I was always in SAC and on time meant ON TIME. If an aircraft had a mission take off time of 0900 the plane would taxi to the end of the runway, countdown the seconds and release brakes exactly at 0900. Mission planning was precise and it was mandatory everybody adhered to the exact timing...every day.
The only times things went haywire was when something broke and then many times heads rolled.