Post by Hurricane on Oct 12, 2009 15:07:26 GMT 1
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.”
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.”