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Devil Doc said:
yep, those were the days.

Do you know why people waved the pic after the camera rolled it out?

I don't know, just asking.
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I may have missed some inside joke here, so forgive me if I did. People used to shake or wave the photos ejected from an SX-70 (by far the sexiest version of the Land camera) because it aided or sped up "drying time", as the photos were slightly wet when they came out. The new instant film isn't the same stuff, and can actually be damaged by vigorous shaking.
 
flieger83 said:
No. The "Zero's" were T-6's that were modified and the "Val's" were BT-13's VERY modified.

Steve
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USAFA '83
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I guess I used Zero as a generic name for Japanese planes used in the attack. I did a little research and found these pics of what I think are T-6s.
 

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Also a nice modification into the Nakajima B5N Kate torpedo bomber with the extra long canopy for the 3 man crew in the above pic. Looks close enough to me. Unlike the totally unconvincing M47 Patton tanks painted with crosses used for the German tanks in the Battle of the Bulge movie.
 
Devil Doc said:
I guess I used Zero as a generic name for Japanese planes used in the attack. I did a little research and found these pics of what I think are T-6s.
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The left one looks like an altered T-6. The middle one looks like a BT-13 mod, and the far-right one looks like a T-6 mod.

Lookup the CAF "Tora Sponsor Group" and you'll see all three types. It's an amazing "alteration" job!
( https://commemorativeairforce.org/units/70 )

Steve
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USAFA '83
 
Okay. That one on the right (below the one with the red rudder) with the long canopy looks like a "Kate" to me, especially since it is carring a torpedo underneath. That's a Nakajima B5N. The one turning hard right looks like a Mitsubishi A6M "Zero", but I can't tell for sure, because I can't see the whole tail. The one with the fixed gear and wheel spats is different altogether. I would have to research that one. I'll go with @flieger83 above. They look like really good mods.

Also...the M47 tanks painted with German markings in the Battle of the Bulge were laughable, even when I was a kid. I used to build Testor's model kits of Panzers all the time, and I knew exactly what they looked like. Of course, my Panzers were always in dioramas in some sort of "knocked out" manner. Because even back then it was "Merica!".
 
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Capt MJ said:
So how did I answer “How long have you been in the Navy?”
All me bloomin' life, sir! Me mother was a mermaid, me father was King Neptune. I was born on the crest of a wave and rocked in the cradle of the deep. Seaweed and barnacles are me clothes. Every tooth in me head is a marlinspike; the hair on me head is hemp. Every bone in me body is a spar, and when I spits, I spits tar. I'se hard. I is, I am, I are!
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Did you post that from memory, or cut and paste from somewhere?

The answer to Why didn't you say Sir ? is:

Sir, sir is a subservient word, surviving from the surly days of old Serbia, when certain Serfs to ignorant to remember their Lords name, but too servile to blasphemy them, circumvented the situation by surrogating the subservient word "sir", by which I now address a certain senior syrupy enough to ask why I didn't say sir, SIR !

I don't know, I forget alot of things, but that one is still hardwired into my head (and was typed from memory) !
 
Old Navy BGO said:
Did you post that from memory, or cut and paste from somewhere?

The answer to Why didn't you say Sir ? is:

Sir, sir is a subservient word, surviving from the surly days of old Serbia, when certain Serfs to ignorant to remember their Lords name, but too servile to blasphemy them, circumvented the situation by surrogating the subservient word "sir", by which I now address a certain senior syrupy enough to ask why I didn't say sir, SIR !

I don't know, I forget alot of things, but that one is still hardwired into my head (and was typed from memory) !
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OCS memory!

It also had to be delivered with a pirate-like argh tone.
 
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Yep...there's a lot of the "little gold book" I have that I have forgotten but there are those "gems" that just don't go away. When my JROTC cadets decided to be serious about the Kitty Hawk Honor Society (think NHS for AFJROTC) they found the "knowledge" that prospective members had to memorize. One was a quote that my KH commander read, passed to the current members, and then said "Sir...there's NO way we can learn this...it's just TOO long..."

To which I replied: "Major General John M. Schofield's graduation address to the graduating class of 1879 at West Point is as follows: The discipline which makes the soldiers of a free country reliable in battle is not to be gained by harsh or tyrannical treatment. On the contrary, such treatment is far more likely to destroy than to make an army. It is possible to impart instruction and give commands in such a manner and such a tone of voice as to inspire in the soldier no feeling but an intense desire to obey, while the opposite manner and tone of voice cannot fail to excite strong resentment and a desire to disobey. The one mode or the other in dealing with subordinates springs from a corresponding spirit in the breast of the commander. He who feels the respect which is due to others cannot fail to inspire in them respect for himself; while he who feels, and hence manifests, disrespect toward others, especially his subordinates, cannot fail to inspire hatred against himself."

It was a "mic-drop" moment. They just stared at me...and you could see the wheels turning...

Later I explained that as a Doolie this was known as either "Schofield's Quote" or "The Discipline Quote."

It was required doolie knowledge.

Steve
USAFA ALO
USAFA '83
 
Growing up, every time someone in our house asked the time, my dad replied with this, and he said it really fast.

I am greatly embarrassed and deeply chagrined that due to unforeseen circumstances beyond my control, the inner workings and hidden mechanisms of my chronometer are in such in accord with the great sidereal movement with which time is generally reckoned that I cannot with any degree of accuracy state the correct time. But without fear of being too greatly in error, I will state that it is about....
 
Heatherg21 said:
Growing up, every time someone in our house asked the time, my dad replied with this, and he said it really fast.

I am greatly embarrassed and deeply chagrined that due to unforeseen circumstances beyond my control, the inner workings and hidden mechanisms of my chronometer are in such in accord with the great sidereal movement with which time is generally reckoned that I cannot with any degree of accuracy state the correct time. But without fear of being too greatly in error, I will state that it is about....
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OH I LOVE THIS!!!

Memory work will begin tonight...

Steve
USAFA ALO
USAFA '83
 
Heatherg21 said:
Growing up, every time someone in our house asked the time, my dad replied with this, and he said it really fast.

I am greatly embarrassed and deeply chagrined that due to unforeseen circumstances beyond my control, the inner workings and hidden mechanisms of my chronometer are in such in accord with the great sidereal movement with which time is generally reckoned that I cannot with any degree of accuracy state the correct time. But without fear of being too greatly in error, I will state that it is about....
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My DH knows that one!! As does my DBIL. They are really annoying when they recite it in unison, when I am foolish enough to ask the time. They just look at each other and start.
 
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Capt MJ said:
My DH knows that one!! As does my DBIL. They are really annoying when they recite it in unison, when I am foolish enough to as the time. They just look at each other and start.
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He also used to occasionally answer 'what time is it' with something I doubt is in reef points and not 100% appropriate. Something along the lines of, Hey Dad, what time is it? "half past a monkey's butt and 1/4 to his ..........(family jewels)."
 
Heatherg21 said:
He also used to occasionally answer 'what time is it' with something I doubt is in reef points and not 100% appropriate. Something along the lines of, Hey Dad, what time is it? "half past a monkey's butt and 1/4 to his ..........(family jewels)."
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I remember that one from my childhood and I was using it then.
 
DH and DBIL, whom I mentioned above in reference to the “time” quote, products of boy choir schools, vocal music camps and college/USNA men’s glee clubs, also know the dirty words to various Christmas carols (not the sacred ones, the secular ones) sung in two well-trained tenor voices, various sea ditties and other assorted doggerel, naughty limericks, ribald versions of nursery rhymes, tongue-twisters, the other quotes mentioned above, etc. No wonder they both went Navy air. They can just whip that stuff out, bar tricks at the ready. My DSIL and I just order another round of drinks and laugh. We went on a 20-day cruise together a year ago and they were able to polish the rust off of all kinds of stuff we had never heard before. Guess that kind of trained memory came in handy for NATOPS exams.
 
I heard that same joke as "Marine". I like "Navy Pilot" even better, although my wife says I'm still a child.
 
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