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22-01-07, 02:05
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Wit and wisdom from military manuals
Nope, these are not quotes from Alex Blair - his wit and wisdom will be come evident next Tuesday night...
"A slipping gear could let your M203 grenade launcher fire when you least expect it. That would make you quite unpopular in what's left of your unit." - Army's magazine of preventive maintenance ------------------------------------------------------ "Aim towards the Enemy." - Instruction printed on U.S. Rocket Launcher ------------------------------------------------------ "When the pin is pulled, Mr. Grenade is not our friend." - U.S. Marine Corps ------------------------------------------------------ "Cluster bombing from B-52s is very, very accurate. The bombs are guaranteed always to hit the ground." - USAF Ammo Troop ------------------------------------------------------ "If the enemy is in range, so are you." - Infantry Journal ----------------------------------------------------- "It is generally inadvisable to eject directly over the area you just bombed." - U.S. Air Force Manual ------------------------------------------------------ "Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons." - General MacArthur ----------------------------------------------------- "Try to look unimportant; they may be low on ammo." - Infantry Journal ------------------------------------------------------ "You, you, and you. Panic. The rest of you, come with me." - U.S. MarineCorps Gunnery Sgt. ------------------------------------------------------ "Tracers work both ways." - U.S. Army Ordnance - ----------------------------------------------------- "Five-second fuses only last three seconds." - Infantry Journal ------------------------------------------------------- "Don' t ever be the first, don't ever be the last, and don't ever volunteer to do anything." - U.S. Navy Swabbie ------------------------------------------------------- "Bravery is being the only one who knows you're afraid." - David Hackworth ------------------------------------------------------- "If your attack is going too well, you're walking into an ambush." - Infantry Journal ------------------------------------------------------ "Any ship can be a minesweeper. Once." - unknown ------------------------------------------------------- "Don't draw fire; it irritates the people around you." -------------------------------------------- ----------- "If you see a bomb technician running, follow him." - USAF Ammo Troop ------------------------------------------------------- "You've never been lost until you've been lost at Mach 3." - Paul F. Crickmore (test pilot) ------------------------------------------------------- "The only time you have too much fuel is when you're on fire." ------------------------------------------------------- "Blue water Navy truism: There are more planes in the ocean than submarines in the sky." - From an old carrier sailor ------------------------------------------------------ "If the wings are traveling faster than the fuselage, it's probably a helicopter -- and therefore, unsafe." ------------------------------------------------------- "When one engine fails on a twin-engine airplane, you always have enough power left to get you to the scene of the crash." ----------------------------------------- -------------- "Without ammunition, the USAF would be just another expensive flying club." ------------------------------------------------------- "What is the similarity between air traffic controllers and pilots? If a pilot screws up, the pilot dies; If ATC screws up, .... the pilot dies." ------------------------------------------------------- "Never trade luck for skill." ------------------------------------------------------- The three most common expressions (or famous last words) in aviation are: "Why is it doing that?", "Where are we?" And "Oh Sh..!" ------------------------------------------------------- "Airspeed, altitude and brains. Two are always needed to complete the flight successfully." ------------------------------------------------------- "Mankind has a perfect record in aviation; we never left one up there!" ------------------------------------------------------- "Flashlights are tubular metal containers kept in a flight bag to store dead batteries." ------------------------------------------------------- "Flying the airplane is more important than radioing your plight to a person on the ground who is incapable of understanding or doing anything about it." -------------------------------------------------------- "The Piper Cub is the safest airplane in the world; it can just barely kill you." - Attributed to Max Stanley (Northrop test pilot) -------------------------------------------------------- "Never fly in the same cockpit with someone braver than you." ------------------------------------------------------- "There is no reason to fly through a thunderstorm in peacetime." - Sign over squadron ops desk at Davis-Monthan AFB, AZ, 1970 --------------------------------------------------------- "If something hasn't broken on your helicopter, it's about to." --------------------------------------------------------- Basic Flying Rules: "Try to stay in the middle of the air. Do not go near the edges of it. The edges of the air can be recognized by the appearance of ground, buildings, sea, trees and interstellar space. It is much more difficult to fly there." ------------------------------------------------------- "You know that your landing gear is up and locked when it takes full power to taxi to the terminal." ___
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RHC Why is it that when you have the $$, you don't have the time, and when you have the time you don't have the $$? 
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22-01-07, 03:37
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Murphy's Infanteer's Laws:
"A contact with the Enemy will always occur at the junction of two maps, while a contact requiring Air or Artillery support will occur at the junction of 4 maps."
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22-01-07, 04:40
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Re: Wit and wisdom from military manuals
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