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Zulu Dawn was overly stylized, and had enough errors to fill a book, although the producers were correct when they stressed that the British split their forces before knowing the strength and disposition of the Zulu. I was never a fan of Burt Lancaster, and his portrayal of Colonel Durnford...

I knew several Corpsmen when I first went on active duty in the Naval Reserve. My first assignment was in H Company, MCB7. H Company had all the "fleet rates" plus the Engineering Aides. We had deep respect for the Corpsmen, and being in disbursing, we insured the corpsmen and DT's got their...

Airdales were famous for sending greenies after propwash at the aviation stores.

Worked in a Navy Disbursing Office on reserve duty a few times. We always referred to the "Eagle" as "s*****ng green" on payday.

I heard this term occasionally while on active duty. "Drifty". It means someone who's so unsquared away, that he needed an anchor tied to his butt to keep from drifting away. I was assigned to COMCBLANT, 3rd NCB, Public Affairs Office, and when we got "short", we'd go to the EM club, buy a...

Sean Connery always insured that James Bond showed fear, when the scene called for it. In that respect, Daniel Craig also does James Bond justice. Craig also has that little tinge of cruelty one would expect from a secret agent carrying a "00" prefix. My like for Sean Connery comes from the...

The Fairlane body was used. The higher-end Galaxie two doors had no "B" pillar. The "B" pillar added strength to the body, and helped prevent the roof being crushed in case of a rollover accident. The 1959 model was also the last year for the "Skyliner" convertible. That's the one where the...

The 1959 Ford was the last of the 1957-1959 body style. In those days, the bodies ran in three-year cycles. The designers would streamline things, and the design committee would "box off" edges, because they knew the stamping plants couldn't hold the sleeker specs. At the Louisville Assembly...

The reason meds are cheaper in Canada, and other foreign countries, is that those countries refuse in many instances, to recognize amortization costs that U.S. companies incur, and subsequently try to recover within the patent life. Those costs are borne mostly by American consumers, and those...

Actually, he rarely carried both revolvers. I've seen numerous pictures of him at the Patton Museum, and there are only two or three of him carrying both. His "killing gun" was the Registered Magnum, and the Colt Model P has ivory grips notched with the kills he made on the Mexican Punitive...

"In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida", by Iron Butterfly.

Anyone who loves Connies and Warthogs is okay in my book! :D :D :D

Spent more than a couple of Fridays and Sundays on the C-121 in 1970, when it was the Blue Angels' crew plane. We'd depart Quonset Point NAS, go to wherever the Blue Angels were performing that weekend, do our gig, and return on Sunday nights. When in passenger configuration it was the...

Some time back, I read that Ian Fleming indeed, didn't picture Sean Connery as James Bond, but when he saw Connery act on the set of Dr. No, he changed his mind.

Amen! One of the things that stood out about Sean Connery's portrayal, was his ability to bring a sense of danger and peril to the character. You knew James Bond was in lethal danger. And his tit-for-tat behavior to the bad guys was human, and expected. I always got the impression that...

OK, Master Chief. Your body and mind are telling you to sleep. Do not disobey them. They know much better than you, your sleep needs. The smoking lamp is out!! All kidding aside, after you stop working the "grind", your body starts to revert back to its natural sleep habits. Until the...

RIP, Mr. Booth. As an actor, he could take sleaze to a new low every time he was on the screen. Great, great, character actor. PS - Married for 47 years. Survived by his wife and two children.

McNamara was a strategic thinker, but lacked the skills to apply that thinking to tactics. Yes, we needed some "outside the box" thinking for a new battle rifle, but he tended to overthink the concept, and attempted to mother the idea too far down the chain. When he was at Ford, he and the...

The debate over McNamara's closing of the Springfield Arsenal has raged for years. However, the Arsenal had developed a "not invented here" mentality for weapons development. If it didn't resemble the M1/M14 platform, it wasn't a battle rifle. Springfield badly lagged in adjusting weapons...

Admiral King was hide-bound to his intelligence section based in D.C. They had short shrifted Admiral Nimitz's intel section since the start of the war. Joseph Rochefort's staff, along with Edwin Layton, were miles ahead in decoding the Japanese Navy's code. Both Rochefort and Layton were...