Max the Mad Russian
Hands off Ukraine! Feet too
Hello Gents,
From 1990s when I have read some Desert Storm books, I've learned that in an average VFA there were then two ground "Greenshirt" officers for general PAMO jobs, but both were usually LDOs (and one more, a Gunner, was CWO). In one squadron, if I not mistake VFA-131, there were one AMDO and one LDO. So the question is what kind of a maintenance job on a squadron level (i.e. before applying to AIMD) is proper for a commissioned RL AMDO of O-2/3 rank?
Everything is comparable, right? In a standard Russian squadron of MiG-29s (12 airplanes; about 1997), there were 15 pilots and 23 ground officers: 12 engineers O-2 (one per each bird) and 11 engineering duty officers (the leading engineer O-4, three O-2/3s for ordnance, three J-2/3s for engines and airplane hydraulics/electrics, three O-2/3s for electronics, one O-2 for catapult seats), plus 8 WOs and only 15+ enlisted personnell (mostly special truck/land tankers' drivers).
Given so big crowd of an officer engineers on a routine jobs here in Russia, I wonder how alone AMDO (a pair at best) can cope out with the whole squadron of US NavAir.
Thanks
From 1990s when I have read some Desert Storm books, I've learned that in an average VFA there were then two ground "Greenshirt" officers for general PAMO jobs, but both were usually LDOs (and one more, a Gunner, was CWO). In one squadron, if I not mistake VFA-131, there were one AMDO and one LDO. So the question is what kind of a maintenance job on a squadron level (i.e. before applying to AIMD) is proper for a commissioned RL AMDO of O-2/3 rank?
Everything is comparable, right? In a standard Russian squadron of MiG-29s (12 airplanes; about 1997), there were 15 pilots and 23 ground officers: 12 engineers O-2 (one per each bird) and 11 engineering duty officers (the leading engineer O-4, three O-2/3s for ordnance, three J-2/3s for engines and airplane hydraulics/electrics, three O-2/3s for electronics, one O-2 for catapult seats), plus 8 WOs and only 15+ enlisted personnell (mostly special truck/land tankers' drivers).
Given so big crowd of an officer engineers on a routine jobs here in Russia, I wonder how alone AMDO (a pair at best) can cope out with the whole squadron of US NavAir.
Thanks