FD,
I have seen some rather silly things posted on here but......
"to something along the lines of "the C130J and C17 that do need a Flight Engineer, but are not configured for one.."
Obviously both LM and Boeing got this one totally wrong so go on, give us the benefit of your vast wealth of of C17 and J model Op's and tell us exactly what said AE is actually going to do on either aircraft....................you couldn't write some of this sh1te