What is considered a Nonner? Is it any AFSC that isn't a Maintainer?

OH... "Nonner"...
I Thought I Read "Nooner"
OOPS

As a proud maintainer, I can say that anyone who is a non-sortie generating motherfucker is a Nonner. However, there are exceptions for those who have to work crappy hours just like maintainers or are general harassed that are too awesome to be called Nonners. The insult of Nonners are those people who have a 8-1430 job and are closed every other Thursday for training ( MPF, medical, finance, and the like). This is not to say that their jobs aren’t important but generally they don’t understand how we can be so irate And hate them so much when they screw up our pay or come in smelling like fuel after a 12 hr shift and be asked to leave Yet they get to go home with little to no repercussions because “the system rejected it”. I would say that whole EOD is technically Nonners they are in the badass camp and are exempt from shit talking.

Anyone in the Air Force who can read above a 7th grade level is a nonner ;o)

I'm sure the flight line has changed abundantly since you turned a wrench, MSgt Wolverton.

I wasn't in aircraft maintenance. I was however in ground radio maintenance. I am sure that makes me a "nonner." However, I would like to see that aircraft get off the ground if I took all my radios back or if some of my coworkers had turned off the base computer network or telephone switch.
Just sayin'!

A nonner I was told non maintainer back when I worked in a maintenance squadron as an admin. But by actuality a nonner is somebody that doesn't have to worry about a normal shift being on the weekends or having people working 24/7 with different shifts and all that. I recon you could call some parts of EOD a nonner but you could call some parts of every job a nonner especially at the higher ranks because eventually you sit behind a desk and make informed decisions instead of out there turning a wrench or diffusing a bomb or checking id cards at the gates.

No idea

Don't rightly know. But I know what a "Nooner" is. I took them all time...and still do!!!

Without support, there are no sorties - and that's all. North Dakota - South Dakota -- All the Dakotas -- get over it. Chauvinism benefits no one!

NAPs: Non Airborne Personnel (Formerly LEGS Low Energy Ground Soldiers). I like this saying more. Now I like it more because a lot of people not being a Nonner would be considered one of these.

I never saw people in real life bitch about their AFSC like people do online. I never heard the term used in real life either.

What I did do... is if I had anyone who worked odd hours, whenever possible try and expedite their work that needed to be completed so that way they can go home, get some sleep or get on with their life.

The biggest problem with this term, is that some "nonner" AFSC's work and have 24/7 operations. Not always at every base but they do exist.

Back when i was flightline and back-shop avionics maintenance (1970s-1980s), the term was NUB = Non-Usable Body. Which could mean a brand new tech school grad that cannot be left alone on the flight line, or in the shop, someone on a medical "duties" waiver after an injury or illness, or that person that cannot find their way out of a wet paperbag with a map. So inapt that they also could not hold a flashlight or pass a tool.

I have heard "shoe clerk" for non-rated officers too.

An old adage is "Never insult the people that get you paid, that work on an aircrew's EPIRB/ ELT or your egress equipment (all shop people). When I was a maintainer on F-111s, had one go down in an controlled roll. Crew module worked as advertised but came down at a rough landing angle. Hard landing with A/C commander suffering back injuries. When able, he came to the Egress shop screaming that he would rather be dead than have his back messed. Our squadrom Cmsgt said " Sir if you will give us your tail number next time, we'll be happy to oblige.."

I believe it's the same as the USMC "Beer Bitch"...

Anyone that's not flightline maintenance.

A nonner is a term flight line guys use to whine about others not stuck on the line LOL. I worked the line for 11 years of my 24 but never whined about other AFSCs.