Tom, The reason we worked you guys so hard to get ships flyable is, we had to have 13 and 5 EVERY day. If I failed to have 13 slicks and 5 guns availaible for combat operations, The 545th TC det. commander and I, or sometimes I alone (I was acting commander for 6 weeks during that tour), got to explain it to the 119th commander (along with the service platoon maint. officer). The commander of the 119th then got a personal invitation to go explain it to the Batallion commander. Short of "they were blown all to hell last night sir", none of those commanders were known to accept excuses.
Scarred Butt Taylor
Former MO, 545th TC det/119th AHC
Salute!