Posted on 01/09/2018 6:48:46 PM PST by Strac6
Have you ever wanted a job that combines your love of travel with your love of conspiracy theories and mysteries? Well, the United States government has just the position for you.
According to a new job posting on the website AECOM, the government is looking to hire a few new cabin crew members for flights operated by the U.S. Air Force that depart from McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas. These flights allegedly shuttle government and contract employees back and forth to Area 51.
For those who aren't familiar — and don't follow extraterrestrial rumors — Area 51, located deep in the Nevada desert, has long been considered one of the country’s most mysterious locations. According to conspiracy theories, this is where the government is attempting to reverse engineer alien spacecrafts and conducts all extraterrestrial experiments. Though, according to the CIA, the area is simply a testing ground for the Air Force. You can choose to believe whoever you’d like.
Upon boarding the label-less white and red Janet airlines airplane, crew members will be expected to perform all the regular duties of a steward including briefing passengers on aircraft emergency equipment and procedures, and ensuring passenger compliance with all safety regulations. The crew members will also be expected to create flight manifests as necessary and ensure security practices and procedures are followed. They must be willing to attend trainings and provide “leadership, direction, and assistance” during an emergency, including aircraft evacuation.
Moreover, the advertisement calls for someone who is “level-headed and clear thinking while handling unusual incidents and situations,” which they note as severe weather conditions, including turbulence, delays due to weather or mechanical issues, hijackings or bomb threats. Somehow, the unusual incident of running into an alien isn’t listed here.
To apply for the job one must be a high school graduate or equivalent, pass a company-operated jet aircraft Emergency Training and Initial Flight Attendant Training, and maintain currency as a flight attendant. Moreover, the person must be able to “effectively perform all assigned physical duties without difficulty and without assistance,” meaning they will be required to push and pull heavy-hinged aircraft doors, which weigh up to 80 lbs.
The new crew members will have to comply with the dress and uniform code (we’re hoping this means you have to wear a spacesuit), and possess “effective oral communication skills, including good public speaking abilities.”
Oh, and the crew member must “qualify for and maintain a top secret government security clearance and associated work location access,” so really they are taking this posting seriously.
While you’d be sworn to secrecy over the things you see and hear while performing your job duties, just imagine the stories you’d be able to relive over and over again in your mind. Or, maybe write in a novel to be found after your death. That way neither the aliens nor the government can come after you.
McCarran. my mistake.
Tigerclaws said this:
“This is the airport that had the gas tanker the Vegas shooter was trying to (according to police) blow up prior to his targeting the crowd.”
Eyedigress responded to Tigerclaws saying this:
“Nope. Nellis”.
Blackpacific responded to Eyedigress saying this:
“Nope, McCarron. Nellis would have required a sniper rifle that could shoot 10 miles. :)”
Eyedigress responds:
“Your reading comprehension needs work”.
There is nothing wrong with my reading comprehension.
:)
My bad I guess.
I was staying on topic and others strayed off.
You know what I meant. :)
When Tiger said “This is the airport”
That is what I responded to.
Janet Airline has been around for a number of years. It mainly serves the Nevada National Security Site (most notably Area 51 and the Tonopah Test Range), from their terminal at Las Vegas’ McCarran International Airport. The fleet’s “Janet” call sign, from which its de facto name comes, is said to stand for “Just Another Non-Existent Terminal.” They are also the connecting point for Groom Lake.
rwood
Watched them take off many times while I was at that airport. I always pointed out to folks around me to see if they can get a tail number off one of those planes.
Last time I was there, last NOV, I watched as they ran one of those planes up in front of the commercial plane line up and it took off.
I vaguely remember something about the burn pits causing health problems in area 51
All the cool jobs are in the desert :)
Just got a call tonight from one of my buddys that was in gulfwar 1, everything since too
gulf war 1 muckered him up
“Or, maybe write in a novel to be found after your death. That way neither the aliens nor the government can come after you.”
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The government surely, but the aliens - well, it depends on which group you are talking about ...
“This is Your Cabin Crew”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWs4abqdwZ0
(cute girls dancing to “Waiting for a Star to Fall”)
I worked at the site in the early ‘80’s.
An on site security presentation suggested we answer “Weird looking things”, when asked what’s out there.
The favorite airline of Bill “put some ice on that” Clinton. Obviously, not Virgin Airlines.
You're right. From 2007:
Area 51 burning revealed
"But last week he went on the record about the nine years he spent as a security officer at the classified Air Force installation, 90 miles north of Las Vegas, telling a Department of Labor hearing representative how he supervised burning of poisonous stealth coatings in large open pits. 2007"
From 2013:
Area 51: The real cover-up
"Area 51, as the newly declassified material makes clear, was a test site for Cold War technology, including the U-2 spy plane. But it was also, according to people who worked there, a hazardous waste site, at which classified equipment and materials were disposed of in an illegal and extremely dangerous manner."
“We live on the Big Island and Kauai is the only one we go visit for a short getaway.”
I first went to Kauai in ‘88 and and loved it. I’ve been back twice and it gets more like the big island each time. I wish I could freeze it just like it was on the first trip.
IIRC, Jonathan Gurley represented some of the workers claiming health problems. I think it was all settled quietly back during the Clinton years.
Nope. I know nothing.
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