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Probably not much. It happens in the Army to. Not supposed to, but we had "hanger queens" in some units, piece of equipment is down for a part, and that part isn't coming in from the States for a month, guess we can "borrow" some parts off of it to keep the rest of the equipment up. Just takes one surprise IG inspection to ruin a career or two if you make a habit of that though.

Hmm didn't think borrowing parts off the other aircraft's was not a good practice. Most of the time we transferred the equipment serial number over to the aircraft receiving the part, so it was known in the ACFT forms. You gotta make your sorties...and a downed aircraft waiting on a long lead part, while another aircraft is down for a long depot or TCTO, makes sense to grab one off it.
 
Probably not much. It happens in the Army to. Not supposed to, but we had "hanger queens" in some units, piece of equipment is down for a part, and that part isn't coming in from the States for a month, guess we can "borrow" some parts off of it to keep the rest of the equipment up. Just takes one surprise IG inspection to ruin a career or two if you make a habit of that though.

Thats weird, in the AirForce we would actually schedule a jet to become a CANN jet and they would rotate them out because how long it took parts to come in but it was normal practice in the AirForce. They would try to make them FMC/MC again before a month went by so it wouldn't go hangar queen status.
 
Hmm didn't think borrowing parts off the other aircraft's was not a good practice. Most of the time we transferred the equipment serial number over to the aircraft receiving the part, so it was known in the ACFT forms. You gotta make your sorties...and a downed aircraft waiting on a long lead part, while another aircraft is down for a long depot or TCTO, makes sense to grab one off it.

And the damned suspenses in IMDS that was never cleared a year ago when it was on another jet to go along with it....ugh, dont miss those fucking headaches.
 
Thats weird, in the AirForce we would actually schedule a jet to become a CANN jet and they would rotate them out because how long it took parts to come in but it was normal practice in the AirForce. They would try to make them FMC/MC again before a month went by so it wouldn't go hangar queen status.

Army has (or used to have, ive been out a long time) a tiered priority system for parts and maintenance, at the top are front line combat units, Nuke capable and other critical units, these guys get repairs and replacements first, followed by non deployed combat and support units in garrison and then lower priority support and training units.

The Army has different levels of maintenance, "10" level is Organizational level, the units organic support. they are capable of basic repairs only, and if it exceeds the units authorized repair level the direct support units will take over repairs, sometimes working with the 10 level maintainers in the field to get the job done, if they can't do it, the item gets sent further up the chain with the top tier maintenance being provided by civilian techs at the depot level maintenance. An example of this would be a Bradley IFV heavily damaged by an IED, that requires a rebuild.

You get the "Hanger Queens" in this system where you have a low priority unit that requires a part that is in short supply, so the item will be dead lined until the part comes in, which may be months in some cases.
 
Army has (or used to have, ive been out a long time) a tiered priority system for parts and maintenance, at the top are front line combat units, Nuke capable and other critical units, these guys get repairs and replacements first, followed by non deployed combat and support units in garrison and then lower priority support and training units.

The Army has different levels of maintenance, "10" level is Organizational level, the units organic support. they are capable of basic repairs only, and if it exceeds the units authorized repair level the direct support units will take over repairs, sometimes working with the 10 level maintainers in the field to get the job done, if they can't do it, the item gets sent further up the chain with the top tier maintenance being provided by civilian techs at the depot level maintenance. An example of this would be a Bradley IFV heavily damaged by an IED, that requires a rebuild.

You get the "Hanger Queens" in this system where you have a low priority unit that requires a part that is in short supply, so the item will be dead lined until the part comes in, which may be months in some cases.

Sounds very similar to what we have, maybe refined a little bit. It was structured almost exactly the same, organizational, intermediate, and depot. We called our support units "backshops". Crew Chief "backshop" were the phase inspections of the aircraft. You had Electrical and Environmental backshop, Avionics backshop and so on.

It was tiered damned near identical in the Army it sounds like ours was when it came to parts priority, I remember parts getting redirected to go to a deployed location rather than to where I was at at the time. Parts came with a fucking quickness though when I was deployed though.
 
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