Military Quotes

Merika · 10-26-2004, 04:19 PM

I don't know what kind of PC games you guys play.....but I thought you might find some of these 'military saying' funny and relevant.

"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 US 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 always hit
the ground."
-Air Force Manual

"If the enemy is in range, so are you."
-Infantry Journal

"It is generally inadvisable to eject directly over the area you just
bombed."
-Air Force Manual

"Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never
encountered automatic weapons."
-Gen. MacArthur

"Try to look unimportant; they may be low on ammo."
-Infantry Journal

"Tracers work both ways"
-Army Ordnance

"Five second fuses only last three seconds."
-Infantry Journal

"Bravery is being the only one who knows you're afraid."
-David Hackworth

"If your attack is going too well, your walking into an ambush."
-Infantry Journal

"Any ship can be a minesweeper... once."
-Anon

Duke · 10-26-2004, 08:06 PM

I run blindly into combat and die many times. My style of gameplay is embarassing.

Paul · 10-26-2004, 11:10 PM

I miss BF.

Great find Merika!!

Duke · 10-28-2004, 12:44 AM

I miss BF too, not too long to HL 2 though now my friend.

Paul · 10-28-2004, 12:45 AM

I miss fragtard.. but I also miss my sanity, so...

Duke · 10-28-2004, 12:55 AM

Fragtards not dead is it?

I haven't been there in the last 3 or 4 days :oops:

Paul · 10-28-2004, 01:00 AM

I just mean I miss being there and working on it but I just don't have the time or energy. Plus as much as I know hl2 is going to be awesome and I want to support it, I don't think I'll have half as much time to play anymore, gaming just isn't the priority it was 3 years ago. But I sure will miss those days.

Duke · 10-28-2004, 01:05 AM

You'll get back to it eventually I'm sure.

I haven't been able to hold up my share of the bargain but I really wanted to get this site up and running asap. For some reason, this is where I am in life and this site is helping me purge thoughts and emotions long since buried but never truly forgotten.

I just hope it can help others in the way it's helped me.

Mondo · 10-28-2004, 12:38 PM

On the USS Lexington theres a warning on the flight deck:

Beware of spinning propellers

A bit obvious I know but my grandfather who was in the RAF saw a man back into a spinning prop. He won't actually describe to me in any detail what happened apart from it was a mess.

Merika · 10-28-2004, 04:48 PM

Everytime there is a 6 months cruise....5 or so people get killed from one thing or another on a carrier. Most of that is flight deck related....which is VERY dangerous!

Someone backing up into a propeller DOES happen...not frequently....but more often than one would suspect.

What does it do? Chops them in slices! One guy was telling me how they had to go find one kid's pieces all over the flight deck when it happened...and there layed the face...all in one piece but sliced off of the head.

I don't use smileys with their faces being cut off because of that.

Mondo · 10-28-2004, 05:09 PM

He won't say what it did exactly but it was from the waist up. It happened sometime in WW2 when he was a triage (sp?) nurse (he was one of the guys that pulled the crews out of shot up planes and treated them on the runway before going to hospital). I really don't know, I can only imaging but an idle WW2 plane engine does about 700-800 rpm so its going to leave a mess.

Merika · 10-28-2004, 05:19 PM

The next big injury on the flight deck is people getting burned from the steam by getting too close to the catapults. I'm sure YOU know those planes don't fly off by themselves....but are actually blown off by steam....but most people don't.

They are working on a new catapult now which will use a type of magnetic deal....kind of like a hi tech roller coaster. I can't imagine all the room it would save in a carrier not to have to keep that steam going all the time.

Sorry....I'm given to fits of rambling when it comes to ships. HAHA!

Mondo · 10-28-2004, 05:25 PM

I like ships too! I have a heap of medals from my grandfather and great grandfather (on my dads side) from WW1 and WW2 and they had exactly the same name as me, there printed on the underside of them which is a bit freaky.

One of the ships he served on, HMS Manchester, before it was sunk in 1942.

Duke · 10-28-2004, 10:16 PM

cool, kinda.

Did he survive?

Mondo · 10-29-2004, 11:09 AM

Oh yeah, he served on a number of ships during and after WW2 in the Royal Navy. After the Manchester on the Malta supply convoys he got assigned to another Southampton class cruiser but I can't recall the name of the top of my head, I'd have to ask my Dad. He did tours in the arctic doing the supply runs from the UK to the USSR on a few different ships, in 1944 he got posted to what was later called Task Force 57 which was a huge RN fleet (it had 30 aircraft carriers and hundreds of escort ships! That must have been a sight to behold) in the pacific that joined up with the US fleets to take Iwo Jima, Chirch Jima, Okinawa etc. I've got pictures of him with half naked girls from some remote island somewhere in the south pacific. The war wasn't all bad

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Oddly enough I went to school with a guy who's grandfather also served on the Manchester. Small world.

Cause that ships wreck was scuttled rather than sunk with hands lost its not a war grave so one day im going to Tunisia and go diving around it.