Have you ever tried to get your car fixed in the driveway in freezing weather so you can get to work?
USAF/Navy mechanics work in all kinds of weather to get the birds back in the air to support the infantry.
Every service has its share of REMFs. The Army is no exception.
I won’t lie, there were many nights during the winter months I had wished we had indoor maintenance facilities to fix aircraft, but that wasn’t and for the most part, isn’t the case.
We fix ‘em where they are and in whatever weather is occurring. With the exception of lightning w/in 3 miles, then we got chased off the line.
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Yes I have, having lived in Wisconsin and Minnesota, many of us jumped out to work on our vehicles when it warmed up to 10 or 15 above zero. It would have been nice to have the radiant floor heating that I saw in the air force hangers that I passed through on the way to doing army things.
Do you think that on those occasions when a few Air Force personnel have to work in the cold, that the army has all moved indoors? Every branch has it's mechanics and personnel that have to work in the same exact weather, but a couple of branches have personnel that live, sleep, and fight on the ground, in those same conditions.
Do you really think that generally, conditions for air force mechanics are worse, or even as bad as it is for the army and marine mechanics in the same theater, and do you think that it is as rough as it is for the men actually living out there in the wilds, in pup tents, or just sleeping bags?
Do many air force personnel have to strip naked to quickly swim a body of partly iced, moving water, at night, in those conditions, trying to keep their gear dry because they have to live in it for the following week with no resupply or assistance?