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Deskjockey
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Posted: Tue Oct 19, 2004 11:34 pm |
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Tafmo,
You're probably not that far from being wrong but they wouldn't have been lawyers.
We've managed to discover a line of sailors in our family going back 4 or 5 generations so far. Had a great grandfather in the Edwardian navy. Apparently my generation of the family is the first one that didn't go to sea.
We got us an edumacation instead!!!!
_________________ Paul Coleman
Nunc est bibendum
I know you believe you understand what you think I said; but I am not sure you realize that what you heard was not what I meant.
- Richard M Nixon
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bobcat
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Posted: Wed Oct 20, 2004 1:06 am |
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tafmo
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Posted: Wed Oct 20, 2004 1:12 am |
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Joined: Fri Nov 14, 2003 2:53 am Posts: 528
City or Town: Sheidow Park
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Resolving disputes amicably and accepting that there's such a thing as personal accountability??
_________________ Robin (Bob) King
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Nirimba, Waratah (Dam Neck), Brisbane, Waratah (Mare Is & LBNSY), Harman (CDSC), Waratah (Mare Is), Brisbane, Harman (Navy Office & CDSC), Waratah (Dam Neck & Mare Is), Harman (CDSC)
Wisdom comes with age, sometimes age comes alone.
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bobcat
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Posted: Wed Oct 20, 2004 3:31 am |
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Deskjockey
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Posted: Wed Oct 20, 2004 5:59 am |
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_________________ Paul Coleman
Nunc est bibendum
I know you believe you understand what you think I said; but I am not sure you realize that what you heard was not what I meant.
- Richard M Nixon
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tafmo
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Posted: Wed Oct 20, 2004 7:22 am |
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Boy, there's an opening there, but being the nice guy that I am I'm going to avoid it like you'd avoid an opening in the Cages in Bombay (now Mumbai).
_________________ Robin (Bob) King
R105234
Ex-WOETS4
25th MOBI Intake
July 68 - June 88
Nirimba, Waratah (Dam Neck), Brisbane, Waratah (Mare Is & LBNSY), Harman (CDSC), Waratah (Mare Is), Brisbane, Harman (Navy Office & CDSC), Waratah (Dam Neck & Mare Is), Harman (CDSC)
Wisdom comes with age, sometimes age comes alone.
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Chippy Ned
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Posted: Wed Oct 20, 2004 7:36 pm |
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Joined: Mon Oct 13, 2003 9:25 am Posts: 780
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_________________
John Kelly (WEBMASTER) R42620 Ex-WOMTH 13th MOBI Intake July'62 to July'83 Nirimba x3 - Rushcutter - Sydney x2 (Carrier) - Melbourne (Carrier) - Penguin - Kuttabul - Creswell x3 - Stalwart x2 - Brisbane.
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phred
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Posted: Wed Oct 20, 2004 11:45 pm |
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Seejay wrote: Of course, there's nothing like the sound of a Huey to raise the hairs on the back of your neck..............
Cheers
CJ
The UH-60 has the same effect, CJ. A few others are: an A-10 that over flies you at tree top level at full power, an F-16 going into afterburner 50 feet above the deck, and the sound of automatic weapons fire where it ought not to be like one of the less well off neighborhoods of the city of Boston. I can tell you that last one really gets the adrenaline flowing as well.
_________________ Fred Russell Enlisted USMC 3 March 1972 on delayed entry. Active duty 17 June 1972. Due to a Reduction In Force as the Vietnam War wound down, discharged for a minor medical problem , 23 July 1972.
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Deskjockey
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Posted: Thu Oct 21, 2004 12:20 am |
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...or an F1-11 at tree top level.
_________________ Paul Coleman
Nunc est bibendum
I know you believe you understand what you think I said; but I am not sure you realize that what you heard was not what I meant.
- Richard M Nixon
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Seejay
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Posted: Thu Oct 21, 2004 12:21 am |
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Fred, I saw a squadron of Blackhawks about 15 years ago (hard to believe they've been around that long) in a night airshow in Townsville. Scary beasts.
Same as the A10 Warthog. When I was on Hobart (a late DDG), we towed a target for one off Hawaii. The thing came in below the level of the ship's bridge, deafened us with the cannon on the front, chewed up the target, and sorta slid around the stern of the ship, flew up the port side, and exited back to starboard below the level of the ship's bow. Very impressive.
Glad I was on the pilot's side! Lumpy, meanwhile, was under the table in the CIC.
Cheers
CJ
_________________ Chris O'Keefe R43136 Ex WO Chippy 19th MOBI Intake July 65 to July 85 HMAS Nirimba X 4 -Penguin-Sydney-Queenborough - Creswell - Moreton - Stalwart - Platypus - Coonawarra Reconstruction Team 76 - Platypus - Hobart - Cerberus - FHQ - Coonawarra. Anyone can be ordinary. Shipwrights choose to be extraordinary!
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