Comments on: Silly

By: Justthisguy

Justthisguy — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 07:07:42 +0000

Builds character, MajHarvey!

Or, as a g/f from years ago told me:

“Yeah, builds a mean grumpy character!”

(I had been trying to console her about some bad stuff she was going through.)

By: MajHarvey

MajHarvey — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 06:36:06 +0000

Oh, I know you meant no harm Grumpy – in fact I wouldn’t be surprised if HMX-1 had a separate funding line for the presidential birds.

@Skippy, I wager you a pint of your favorite libation that the Marines come up at the bottom of the list when it comes to extraneous expeditionary expenditures!

By: Grumpy

Grumpy — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 02:29:31 +0000

@MajHarvey, The comment I wrote was not against the Corps. I was only talking about the executive helicopter fleet.

By: Quartermaster

Quartermaster — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 00:53:46 +0000

USAF (and Army) goes TDY, not TAD.

By: Flatlander

Flatlander — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 14:18:37 +0000

That reminds me of a running “jody” from AOCS days, back when it was run by Marine sergeants:

“I don’t know but it’s been said,
Air Force wings are made of lead.
I don’t know but I’ve been told,
Navy Wings are made of gold.”

By: Justthisguy

Justthisguy — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 19:45:40 +0000

Ah, BillT, and others; I remember my AFROTC freshman days, when part of the indoctrination emphasized that our metallic thingies on the uniform were made of oxidised silver, so that we wouldn’t have to waste time polishing them and have more time to get on with The Mission.

About thirty years later, I watched, on C-SPAN, an AF general testifying before a Congressional committee.

HIS silver was not oxidized, oh no! It was quite blindingly eye-hurtingly gleamily polishedly shiny!

@Maj.Harvey: I think the Marines have the right of it, at least as far as hanging all sorts of silly gewgaws on the uniform.