HOW TO JOIN OUR FORUM « Result #1 on Oct 16, 2009, 8:30am »
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For example: jjtodmdkgskjadsu
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Military Wit and Wisdom « Result #2 on Oct 12, 2009, 3:07pm »
As seen in RAF Spirit if The Air Vol 2 No 2 2007 Page 45 This series is well worth a look: (http://www.raf.mod.uk/rafcms/mediafiles/A20B9186_1143_EC82_2ED422A1A07169AE.pdf)
Compiled by Flt Lt Alexander Harman, DAS Ops Engagement
Sent to me by T.G.
# “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 magazine of preventive maintenance)
# “Aim towards the Enemy.” (instruction printed on
US rocket launcher)
# “When the pin is pulled, Mr Grenade is not our friend.” (US 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.” (US Air Force manual)
# “Try to look unimportant; they may be low on ammo.” (infantry journal)
# “You, you, and you. Panic. The rest of you, come with me.” (US Marine Corps Gunnery Sgt)
# “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.” (US 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 travelling 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.”
# “Mankind has a perfect record in aviation; we never left one up there!”
# “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 thingypit 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.”
Re: Help needed « Result #3 on Oct 10, 2009, 5:59pm »
LIke other Squadrons and Units, it was traditional for Squadron members to be presnted with a suitably-inscribed pewter mug when they left and this may be what you have found. (Most of us chipped in a sum each month to cover the cost of "our" mug during our time on the Squadron.)
Is there a date and place on it and does it show to whom the mug was presented?
Interesting News from Tom Neil « Result #5 on Oct 7, 2009, 3:25pm »
Writing to Terry, Wg Cdr Tom Neil DFC* AFC AE RAF (Ret'd) says:
"SWA Fine Art Publishers of Bath (Tel: 01225 444 929, www.swafineart.com) have produced two excellent prints of my Hurricane, one at North Weald over the Christmas, 1940, and the other of my Hurricane (V9313) in action over London during the Battle. Both are in in Print and Christmas Card form and, being extremely well done, may attract many 249 members over the Christmas period.
The Bradford Exchange of Richmond Surrey (Tel: 0208332 0303) are planning to produce a special wrist watch as a 70th anniversary item, bearing my autograph and mentioning 249. Information is likely to be made avaiable to the public by 15 Sep 09 and the production of the watch will depend on the success the publicity is likely to engender. Again this is something that may attract 249 members and be a means of earning some funds for 249.
My original book on the Battle of Britain "Gunbutton to Fire" (published in the '80s and now out of print but selling on the internet for £250 a copy !!) is now being re-printed and will be re-issued in both soft and hardback in Spring, 2010. The publishers are Amberley Publishing Holdings plc of Chalford, Stroud, Glos. GL6 8PE."
Terry adds: 249-ers - start saving! The Christmas cards are available about now in packs of 10 of one picture - see their website.
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