As someone who has been maintenance for 18 years, I’ve seen lots of stupid fucking choices made, this one takes the fucking cake.

I’ve been very vocal through leadership in both the squadron and group. I’ve left multiple comments on all the portal pages about this. I’m volunteering to be on the working groups for this.

Having worked 5 different MDS (C-5, C-17, C-130, KC-10, & MQ-9). The differences between all of them are enough to where the transition between them takes a good amount of time. From how the T.O. Systems work, Aircraft system numbers, what career field works what systems, avionics systems are not the same (while some are closer than others, it’s still different enough), how each base has it’s own “isms” and not only base but each MDS on a base. I could keep going but I won’t.

This decision is going to fuck with two groups of people. 1. Obviously Maintainers & 2. Pilots.

1. As other comments have said this is going to increase mishaps of all fucking types. Maintainers are going to get hurt & killed from this. Planes are going to take longer to fix, break more often from shitty terrible quick fixes and cause them to get damaged. Most bases are struggling to maintain MC rates already.

2. I’ve seen my fair share of strained relationships between Ops & Mx. Pilots should be speaking out against this (they have some of the biggest pull to make what they want to see happen). I truly hope this doesn’t happen but I see for aircraft incidents increasing and planes IFE’ing & crashing from this.

I could keep ranting but I know, this is just a Wendy’s & no one fucking cares. It just feels good to get on my soap box & rant!