Comments on: Time to get up http://www.neptunuslex.com/2007/03/01/time-to-get-up/ The unbearable lightness of Lex. Enjoy! Mon, 15 Mar 2010 14:32:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Prof http://www.neptunuslex.com/2007/03/01/time-to-get-up/comment-page-1/#comment-53288 Prof Sun, 04 Mar 2007 22:51:03 +0000 http://www.neptunuslex.com/2007/03/01/time-to-get-up/#comment-53288 Odd that this same thing happened to two separate Marine A-4s. I deployed to Iwakuni twice on unit rotation as an A-4M driver and both times we relieved VMA-211. On one of those pumps, we got there not too long after a 211 pilot had flown into the water while trying to rendezvous on his lead in bad weather at night. They were returning from Okinawa and got separated in the clouds as they were on approach...Dash 2 saw Lead's lights and joined up on a buoy in the water short of Iwakuni. I didn't get to talk to the guy before he left for home, can't remember his name or if it was 1980 or 1981, but I did see the airplane they had fished up off the bottom. Never heard the story of his escape from the plane; it was still a mystery last I knew. Odd that this same thing happened to two separate Marine A-4s. I deployed to Iwakuni twice on unit rotation as an A-4M driver and both times we relieved VMA-211. On one of those pumps, we got there not too long after a 211 pilot had flown into the water while trying to rendezvous on his lead in bad weather at night. They were returning from Okinawa and got separated in the clouds as they were on approach…Dash 2 saw Lead’s lights and joined up on a buoy in the water short of Iwakuni. I didn’t get to talk to the guy before he left for home, can’t remember his name or if it was 1980 or 1981, but I did see the airplane they had fished up off the bottom. Never heard the story of his escape from the plane; it was still a mystery last I knew.

]]> By: Justthisguy http://www.neptunuslex.com/2007/03/01/time-to-get-up/comment-page-1/#comment-52761 Justthisguy Sat, 03 Mar 2007 05:31:59 +0000 http://www.neptunuslex.com/2007/03/01/time-to-get-up/#comment-52761 Another Robert Graves quote: "Ghosts were a common sight in France that year." Another Robert Graves quote: “Ghosts were a common sight in France that year.”

]]> By: Justthisguy http://www.neptunuslex.com/2007/03/01/time-to-get-up/comment-page-1/#comment-52760 Justthisguy Sat, 03 Mar 2007 05:25:00 +0000 http://www.neptunuslex.com/2007/03/01/time-to-get-up/#comment-52760 I sure hope the flight surgeon didn't wanna lock him up for "hearing voices." I mean, lookit what happened to Joan of Arc. FWIW, I think the latest thinking in neuroscience is that most people "hear voices", as in internal thought dialogue, but most recognize it as part of own brain happenings. That has nothing to say about something like this, though, where the voice was "external" and saved the guy's life. I sure hope the flight surgeon didn’t wanna lock him up for “hearing voices.” I mean, lookit what happened to Joan of Arc.

FWIW, I think the latest thinking in neuroscience is that most people “hear voices”, as in internal thought dialogue, but most recognize it as part of own brain happenings.

That has nothing to say about something like this, though, where the voice was “external” and saved the guy’s life.

]]> By: unkawill http://www.neptunuslex.com/2007/03/01/time-to-get-up/comment-page-1/#comment-52700 unkawill Sat, 03 Mar 2007 01:22:37 +0000 http://www.neptunuslex.com/2007/03/01/time-to-get-up/#comment-52700 In answer to BadBob in #11, The saying is "There are no atheist's in foxhole's." Boy, It sure got all Existential in here. In answer to BadBob in #11,
The saying is “There are no atheist’s in foxhole’s.”

Boy, It sure got all Existential in here.

]]> By: GEO6 http://www.neptunuslex.com/2007/03/01/time-to-get-up/comment-page-1/#comment-52685 GEO6 Sat, 03 Mar 2007 00:13:13 +0000 http://www.neptunuslex.com/2007/03/01/time-to-get-up/#comment-52685 Anyone recall a WWII era movie entitled 'A Guy Named Joe' with Spencer Tracy and Van Johnson? Anyone recall a WWII era movie entitled ‘A Guy Named Joe’ with Spencer Tracy and Van Johnson?

]]> By: lex http://www.neptunuslex.com/2007/03/01/time-to-get-up/comment-page-1/#comment-52646 lex Fri, 02 Mar 2007 22:10:10 +0000 http://www.neptunuslex.com/2007/03/01/time-to-get-up/#comment-52646 Welcome to the madhouse ;-) Welcome to the madhouse ;-)

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