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Old July 9, 2014, 01:47 PM   #14
James K
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"The sear would get worn and all of a sudden the gun wouldn't stop firing when you released the trigger."

Off topic a bit, but I once worked on a project in which the AF Test and Eval people at Kirtland were involved. One Tech Sergeant kept asking how we could be sure that a corrected problem was really fixed. He kept going on and on about how when they tested some new machinegun the sear kept failing in spite of the contractor's assurances that the problem was fixed. At one point he said that "obviously" I knew nothing about sears. I didn't bother to tell him that I knew quite a bit about sears, and I never did convince him that fixing a software problem was not really in the same category. Anyway, AFOTEC prepared a nice test plan and we adopted most of it. Then the whole thing got cancelled, so it all went to naught. I enjoyed Albuquerque, though, especially that great restaurant on Sandia Mountain.

Jim
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