FIRST OF ALL, WHAT IS AN
EAGLEBITE? AN EAGLEBITE IS WHEN SOMEONE ( USUALLY A
CREW CHIEF ) ACCIDENTLY HITS THEIR HEAD OR OTHER BODY
PARTS ON THE F-15. IT'S USUALLY PAINFUL, BUT
YOU GET USED TO IT. TRUST ME, I'VE HAD PLENTY! I PICKED THIS
NAME BECAUSE ANY
OTHER EAGLEKEEPER THAT SEES IT WILL
RECOGNIZE WHO I AM AND WHAT I DO. I
WORK ON AN F-15D,
NICKNAMED " ANIMAL " TAIL #1062. I HAVE MANY PICTURES OF MY JET IN THE TITLE GRAPHICS ABOVE. IT IS
MY FIRST ACTIVE TWO
SEATER AIRCRAFT, UP UNTIL NOW, I'VE ONLY WORKED WITH STATIC
F-15A,B AND ACTIVE C MODELS. I'VE SEEN THE F-15E MODELS AND THEY'RE INPRESSIVE, BUT I THINK I WANT TO STICK WITH THE C AND D MODELS." ANIMAL" IS A
FORMER WING KING
JET, WHICH
MEANS THAT IT WAS THE FAVORITE OF THE GENERAL AT THE
BASE. I WORK WITH THE AIR FORCE
WEAPONS
SCHOOL, HERE AT NELLIS AFB. THE WEAPONS SCHOOL
TEACHES TACTICS TO THE TOP PERCENTAGE OF THE PILOTS IN THE
AIRFORCE, THE TOP GUNS OF THE AIR
FORCE. THAT'S WHY I CALL IT THE "USAF TOP GUN SCHOOL".
WE ALSO HAVE THE RED, GREEN, AND OTHER COLOR FLAGS
EXERCISES AT NELLIS. THE THUNDERBIRDS HOME IS LOCATED
HERE, AND THEY ARE UNDER THE 57th WING'S COMMAND. NELLIS WILL BE THE FIRST BASE IN THE WORLD TO TRAIN PILOTS HOW TO FLY THE F-22 RAPTOR. WHAT IN THE WORLD IS AN F-22? CLICK
My Bio: I was born in Danville, PA,
October 3,
1979, but I was raised in Shamokin,PA. It is a small
town
about 50 miles north of Harrisburg, the state
capital. I
graduated from Shamokin Area High School, and also
attended
the Northumberland County Area Vocational-Technical
School
for three years. At the Vo-Tech, I took Electrical
Construction to learn how to be an electrician. I
took
courses on electrical theory, and worked with
residential
and industrial wiring. Later in my Junior year, I
started
to learn Programmable Logic Controllers, which have to do with "Automation Engineering". I worked on
the
programs called I joined the Air Force for many
reasons, money, travel, free food, etc. I
went to basic training a week after my graduation,
and
spent six weeks at My
instructors were: Msgt Maughn, Tsgt Horne, Ssgt
Yount, Ssgt
Worstall, Cadet Wheary. After basic, I went to After I went on leave
during
Christmas, I went to
Now I'm stationed here at Nellis AFB, and my
supervisor
is Ssgt J. Moffett.I crew at 57AGS/Eagle.I never
thought
that I'd end up in Las Vegas! The strip is really cool, and the weather here is nice, hot and predictable. I stepped up from Airman (AMN; E-2) to Airman First Class (A1C; E-3) on October 17th. Click the above bar to see Las
Vegas weather.
My military
awards and decorations so far: Airman of the Month,
given
to me by my recruter, Tsgt J. Irvine; Expert Marksman
M-16;
Basic training ribbon. Distinguished Graduate, AETC,
82nd
Wing, Sheppard AFB.
TO FIND OUT.
and
which
were two
different programs designed to accomplish the same
goal. Intellution works with Windows, and has a large
amount
of graphics and animations that the operator can use
to run
the program. Modsoft is a more simple, ladder diagram
program that works with DOS. It has a quicker
response time
as compared with Intellution, but has no graphics or
animation besides a blinking ladder diagram.
, San Antonio, TX. I graduated basic
on July
31, from the
Training Squadron, flight 458.
,
Wichita Falls,TX to learn how to be a crew chief.
This
was my "cold" phase of my training, where I worked on
static aircraft that didn't fly.I sewed on my first stripe here, and went from Airman Basic (AB; E-1), to Airman (AMN; E-2). I was stationed
there from
August 3rd till December 23rd.I was assigned to the
362nd
training squadron " Crew Dogs ". My instructors were:
Mr.
Bullard ( Aircraft Fundamentals ), Ssgt T. Lewis,
Tsgt R.
Mitchell, Tsgt R. Bouzon.
,
Panama
City, FL. Here, I
learned some critical tasks on actual, flying
aircraft. I
launched, recovered, and serviced, among other things
during my short stay there. The beach is really nice there, and the 8 miles of white sand is a private beach for the military. I was stationed there
from
January 1-29.I crewed with the
. My
instructors were: Tsgt J. DeMarco and Ssgt J.
Johnson.
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