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Also learned in Japan the following: 'Tak san kuda kuda pa' usually preceded by 'Boysan'. It means you are very crazy. Not sure if I phonetically spelled it right, but you get the jist of it.
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Know quite a few folks that seemed to come back from R&R in this state. Heck, I knew a lot of folks that were like this every morning!!
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Also learned in Japan the following: 'Tak san kuda kuda pa' usually preceded by 'Boysan'. It means you are very crazy. Not sure if I phonetically spelled it right, but you get the jist of it.
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All the Japanese I remember from my childhood is tak san and skoshi. My sister had a cat she named Skoshi because it was so little,  She numba wan.
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It seems like every country had it's own smells to me. I still smell things and it reminds of places from the past.
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No matter the size of the weapon, you must have muzzle awareness!!
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Fire for effect!!
Oh wait. That's for artillery.
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I posted this in my other thread on old military papers but thought I would drop them here as well. From a USAF training comic book dated July 1968.
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This one is no fun. It doesn't have the hot chick in it.
Difference between a DA PAM and a TM.
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Why is a male pheasant sitting on a nest?
Actually, I witnessed something like this happening in real life. One of my uncles was a private pilot and kept his plane at the airport in Erie, PA. My immediate family went from northeast Ohio over to Erie to visit my uncle and aunt, and all of us went to the airport to take a ride in his plane. When we got to the airport, my aunt noticed a lot of bird droppings on the propeller or the front of the plane. My uncle reached into the engine compartment and pulled out a boatload of straw or grass, plus 2 eggs. Can you imagine what could have happened up in the air if that nest ignited?
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Why is a male pheasant sitting on a nest?
Actually, I witnessed something like this happening in real life. One of my uncles was a private pilot and kept his plane at the airport in Erie, PA. My immediate family went from northeast Ohio over to Erie to visit my uncle and aunt, and all of us went to the airport to take a ride in his plane. When we got to the airport, my aunt noticed a lot of bird droppings on the propeller or the front of the plane. My uncle reached into the engine compartment and pulled out a boatload of straw or grass, plus 2 eggs. Can you imagine what could have happened up in the air if that nest ignited?
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There are times when I think that this is very true!
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I guess it would be in bad taste to slap that reporter on camera.
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It always seems that it is the junior man gets the short end of the stick!
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More like cooked Goose.
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More like Roasted Pheasant, but not under glass......
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Got to watch kids with tools! Heck, even have pay close attention to some adults with tools............
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Now that's a SHORT timer!!
Now we can have all the short timer jokes. "I'm so short I can/could.... fill in the blanks"
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Real Short Timers have one of these!
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Been that on eight different WestPac Tours & Med Cruises. Not to mention about a gazillion short deployments. Something most be off in my brain housing group!!
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I got short fast. When I was on OKI I got send home 2 months early because they were cutting back, went from 60 some days to 10 in nothing flat. Then, I put in for an early out for school and I was setting at about 120 when it came though and bang I was down to 40 some
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I was a single digit midget when I flew my last combat mission in RVN. I should have turned my flight gear in sooner. 
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I got short fast. When I was on OKI I got send home 2 months early because they were cutting back, went from 60 some days to 10 in nothing flat. Then, I put in for an early out for school and I was setting at about 120 when it came though and bang I was down to 40 some
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On my initial four year tour in the Corps, I got out after my second tour WestPac. Got an 87 day cut, so spent 3 years 9 months and 12 days in the Corps on a four year tour.
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Who is afraid to jump????? Was offered the chance to go to jump school several times and declined.
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Who is afraid to jump????? Was offered the chance to go to jump school several times and declined.
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My son wears Army jump wing on his AF pilot name tag. A 7 jump chump as they are called, but he did go through Ft. Benning to get them. Not that many AF pilots wear jump wings.  He was never in the Army but his A-10 got him real close to them, and Marines.
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My son wears Army jump wing on his AF pilot name tag. A 7 jump chump as they are called, but he did go through Ft. Benning to get them. Not that many AF pilots wear jump wings. He was never in the Army but his A-10 got him real close to them, and Marines. |
Our base commander Colonel Correy was prior enlisted army airborne. He would go on training jumps with the PJ’s.
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Something to be said for folks that jump out of perfectly good airplanes. I was qualified to use the ejection seat in my aircraft. Thank god, never had to use it!
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Heard there are 2 things that fall from the sky, bird do and fools???????
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Something to be said for folks that jump out of perfectly good airplanes. I was qualified to use the ejection seat in my aircraft. Thank god, never had to use it!
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An old friend of mine was a Mohawk driver until he hurt his back and could not qualify in the ejection seat trainer. I can't remember how often they had to do that. The O-1 was/is the only Army aircraft with an ejection seat. It does not look like fun.
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One of my best friends in high school ROTC became a Mohawk pilot in Nam. He was shot down by ground fire at low altitude. When he ejected, the chute did not open in time. He died with a back broken in three places. It was his second tour. He left his wife and two children; one of which he never saw. Lt. Edward B. Cribb's name is on the Wall - He's buried in the old Fort Benning cemetery.
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One of my best friends in high school ROTC became a Mohawk pilot in Nam. He was shot down by ground fire at low altitude. When he ejected, the chute did not open in time. He died with a back broken in three places. It was his second tour. He left his wife and two children; one of which he never saw. Lt. Edward B. Cribb's name is on the Wall - He's buried in the old Fort Benning cemetery.
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We had the GRU-5 & GRU-7 ejection seats. With the GRU-5, you could eject at zero altitude at 100 MPH and survive (supposedly). With the GRU-7, you could eject at zero altitude and zero MPH and survive (supposedly). Never knew anyone who tested one.
The PSP was used all over. When I got to MCAS Iwakuni, Japan in the summer of 1970. The tarmac was being covered with that. Every squadron had a very large working party involved. Glad I missed out as it was June and hot and working laying PSP was no fun!!!
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