I looked up PMEL on Wikipedia....

Old-Navy · 08-03-2006 -- 13:14:44

A Precision Measurement Equipment Laboratory (PMEL) is a United States Air Force facility in which the calibration and repair of test equipment takes place. This practice is also known as metrology: the science of measurement. The Air Force Specialty Code (AFSC) of airmen trained to work in the PMEL is 2P0X1 replacing 324x1 where "X" represents a variable number which denotes the level of expertise of the individual. There are also defense contractors and government civilians who perform this job.

There is a term used among PMEL technicians called "Going PMEL" synonymous with "Going postal". This term refers to a tendency for people working in the PMEL to become mentally unstable due to the monotony of the work. The most noted example of this phenomenon is that of Dean Mellberg. Mellberg fired upon the medical facility on Fairchild Air Force Base killing four people before being shot and killed by an Air Force Security Forces Member.

Creepy...

Hoopty · 08-03-2006 -- 14:17:04

Quote from: Old-Navy on 08-03-2006 -- 13:14:44
There is a term used among PMEL technicians called "Going PMEL" synonymous with "Going postal". This term refers to a tendency for people working in the PMEL to become mentally unstable due to the monotony of the work. The most noted example of this phenomenon is that of Dean Mellberg. Mellberg fired upon the medical facility on Fairchild Air Force Base killing four people before being shot and killed by an Air Force Security Forces Member.

Now that's just BS. That guy was off to begin with. He just happened to work in PMEL...

K-Rock · 08-03-2006 -- 14:32:13

I agree he was off to begin with. I was on "C" shift at Lowry with that a-hole. I have heard PMEL folks use that term.

cobychuck · 08-03-2006 -- 16:26:56

Well, since you were there, maybe you know Andy Densmore. He almost ended up in a room with that guy but got out of after he heared that this guys previous roommate got moved because Dean threatened to set him on fire. Hell, there were stories about this guy when I went through tech school at Keesler. Yeah, he was already screwed up and like it was said, just happened to work in PMEL. Profiling!

K-Rock · 08-03-2006 -- 16:43:14

I didn't know Andy, but I did know the previous roommate. I have many stories, none of them good. Total loser that the system should have weeded out at recruiting.

docbyers · 08-04-2006 -- 06:26:27

For firearm incidents per capita, I think PMEL must be at the very, very low end of the scale. Postal workers, on the other hand...

Mail is monotonous; cal lab work never is, except when there are a few hundred torque wrenches to bang out...

flew-da-coup · 08-04-2006 -- 07:24:43

I worked with a guy that gave Dean Mellberg a letter of counseling 1 day before the shooting. I was told that Dean was a nut case to begin with. The guy I worked with was Nate Wilson and he was made to go through Phsyco by the AF because Nate was on the "Dean's List". Nate told me that Dean was shot in the head by a SP while trying to go into Nate's base housing area.

Hoopty · 08-04-2006 -- 15:21:08

The beauty of (or is it the problem with) wikipedia is that anybody can make changes...

flew-da-coup · 08-06-2006 -- 15:24:33

The stress is not from the monotous work. It's from the stress of getting to work out the door. You have one guy go shooting people and now we are known for being crazy. I will admit that I am high strung, but I was that way before I started working in PMEL. I am not the only one in PMEL that's high strung, but I don't know anyone that would shoot up a bunch of people over it. Can we change this? I don't know how to go into that website to correct it.

Hoopty · 08-06-2006 -- 17:10:27

look it up @ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precision_Measurement_Equipment_Laboratory

although, it seems that someone with an IP address of 131.1.207.21 (oddly enough, someone also posts in this forum from that address) wants that statement in there...

Powerslave · 08-07-2006 -- 14:49:57

I was at Cannon right after he was discharged from there....heard all the stories...our squadron commander was also on "the List"....there was a few SPs assigned to her for a while...he was shot by an SP as he was outside a base legal office taking shoys of people walking out the doors....the SP that shot him was on a bike...got the call, rode over, pulled out HER 9mm and put 3 rounds center body mass at 90yds....that is the tale we got from the Squadron Commander after it happened....everyone there was scared of him....

flew-da-coup · 08-09-2006 -- 04:53:45

Quote from: Powerslave on 08-07-2006 -- 14:49:57
I was at Cannon right after he was discharged from there....heard all the stories...our squadron commander was also on "the List"....there was a few SPs assigned to her for a while...he was shot by an SP as he was outside a base legal office taking shoys of people walking out the doors....the SP that shot him was on a bike...got the call, rode over, pulled out HER 9mm and put 3 rounds center body mass at 90yds....that is the tale we got from the Squadron Commander after it happened....everyone there was scared of him....

Who? Dean or Wilson?

Powerslave · 08-09-2006 -- 10:33:57

Dean Mellberg.

flew-da-coup · 08-10-2006 -- 05:28:45

I know, I was just joking.

PMEL_DEVIL-DOG · 08-10-2006 -- 14:33:57

R u f'n serious?