Bob Haskell Senior Master Sgt. He has learned even more in seven years with the California Air National Guard. The senior master sergeant is reasonably sure his message has not fallen on deaf ears now that Gayla Anderson has come and gone. Now Smith is determined to keep on persuading those who work on and around the wing s dozen C-130 cargo planes to play it safe. Safety has to be practiced every day, he observed.
People get complacent.
They take shortcuts. They have to be reminded that they re being paid to be safe and to not take chances. It s just the right thing to do. According to Anderson, these Air Guard people are practicing what Darryl Smith has been preaching. It was the first time, Smith said, that anyone had ever evaluated the wing based on federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration standards.