All of the talk about paper cables reminded me of a major snafu that happened a few days
before I arrived at Eglin Air Force base in Florida back in 1983.
Apparently, one of the guys in my shop ( outside plant ) had turned a compressor off in one of the cable huts that contained all of the main feeder cables for the base and he forgot to turn it back on. Then it rained like hell and as you can imagine, it was not a good situation.
Our Commander was embarrassed so he wanted the head of the person that did it mounted and hung on his wall.
He never found out exactly who did it. I never found out who it was either. But I know it would have ended whoever’s career if the Commander found out who it was.
I think there were some people that knew exactly who it was but they kept quite. I guess they felt it could have happened to any of us. And I guess it could have. :shrug:
They finally had the compressor hardwired so it couldn’t be turned off and locked the circuit breaker panel doors.
