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Seriously this is a good way to check for snipers, right? tounge_o.gif

Sure, as long as they don't decide to take a shot with an RT-20. wink_o.gif

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Close Air Support!!!

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(Maybe a little too close, or maybe he was out of ammo,mmmmmm) biggrin_o.gif

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LOL That picture with the shark is pretty old and a fake. The text says it's real, but that's nonsense! The British don't have Blackhawks. wink_o.gif

you what? the british dont have blackhawks... but thats a Yank pavehawk... and its taken in San Fransisco (check the bridge and the coastline out)... sure its fake... but could be possible seeing as Great Whites have been known to swim in those waters

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Well its a war storie from my great grandpa in WW2. He was in Africa with the aussies.

He was at camp when the bomb siren went off. They bombed the camp, he went back and there was this unexploded bomb in the barracks he was in. They got the explosive guys to dismattle. Inside there were no bomb components just a note from the Yugoslavians that read "We are Yugolasvians. We dont want to make bombs for the germans. We're sorry." After that he keep the note.

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War storie:

lol...very good...honesty will always prevail... smile_o.gif

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LOL That picture with the shark is pretty old and a fake. The text says it's real, but that's nonsense! The British don't have Blackhawks. wink_o.gif

you what? the british dont have blackhawks... but thats a Yank pavehawk... and its taken in San Fransisco (check the bridge and the coastline out)... sure its fake... but could be possible seeing as Great Whites have been known to swim in those waters

I was talking about the German text under the picture which said that it's a British army helicopter on training in South Africa, or something like that. wink_o.gif

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Why the hell would they say South Africa if the Golden Gate Bridge is right behind it? tounge_o.gif Maybe the African people built a exact replica of it. wow_o.gif

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Story:

Grandpa was a doctoral candidate in NucPhys when the US tagged into the WW2 ring. Any and all doctoral candidates got 'drafted' into research projects, Grandpa got sent to the Rad lab at MIT. He got put on a variety of projects mainly as a support engineer, IE the lab mice would create some new black box and he'd have to go test it in flight.

They flew out of Boston once and flew into a cloud or something and got totally lost. I forget all the particulars of how it happened, but by the time they saw land they were on fumes and a prayer losing engines on a B-17 iirc. They didn't have enough gas or glide to make the airport, so they planned to ditch on the only place they had space, the crowded beach on a nice summer day.

They buzzed the beach to warn people away, who just smiled and waved. They got the message the second time as the gear came down and they started plowing sand. As soon as they stopped, the crew jumped out and threw a tarp over the custom-built radome and grandpa, a redneck nuc engineer, had to guard it with an ax until the MP's and a gas truck showed up.

Later, he got assigned to be the primary technical liason to the 15th Airforce. His supervisor handled the paperwork to get him a civilian rank equivelency pass, and stressed that Grandpa needed expedited access and transport. When he got the pass, it was stamped as a full Colonel.

While in Italy, he flew several times over Eastern Europe surveying the Eastern Front as part of tuning and training various Radar systems. He got to be good friends with his base commander, who gave him the keys and a full tank of gas to any one of the former Nazi commandant's private collection of exotic cars when ever Grandpa felt the urge to take a little drive.

After training the 15th AAF in their new radar systems, he was transfered to the the 8th AAF in England. They also were ferrying a B-17 with a experimental and rather tempermental radar. On test flights, Grandpa was normally stuffed into the bombbay so that he could setup his oscilloscopes and other tools, and easily access the radar in-flight. While cruising, the pilots would sometimes let him fly, and he even played with a few blind-flight radar-guidence systems.

On this trip, they had special orders to fly west out over the Atlantic, far outside the normal flight path for transit from Italy to England. Later looking at the calendar explained that they were in flight during D-Day, and the southern British radar operators didn't want to see any aircraft coming in except over Ireland and Scotland.

During the middle of the night, most of the crew was asleep while the plane was on autopilot. Grandpa being a scientific engineer however, relished the opportunity to play with his toys undisturbed. Adjusting the frequency of the radar system, he noticed abnormal splotching to the west. After additional tuning and analysis, he realized that he was getting a reflection off of some nearby thunderclouds. Adjusting the flight path to the west, he steered the plane directly into the center of the thunderstorm.

When the radar screen was completely washed out in reflections, he grabbed the intercom from his setup in the bomb bay and yelled "ENEMY FIRE OFF THE PORT SIDE!" - just as a bolt of lightening struck nearby or on the plane. Once the crew had recovered from the 'evasive manuvers' and had woken up, they threatened risking a court-martial by practicing high-altitude bombing runs over the North Atlantic.

After arriving in England, he located his cousin that he had had some rivalry with growing up. The cousin had joined the Army, and proudly boasted of the rank of a Sargeant or such, and wondered what miserable E-9 private equivelency Grandpa had been begrudged. Grandpa smiled and pulled out his Colonel's pass, and promptly ordered his cousin to be his personal driver when ever possible while he was in England.

Afterwards he moved to Los Alamos NM, back when it was still only a PO Box in Santa Fe, and played with experimental nuclear reactors and high-energy systems until he retired. He'll be 91 in March, and climbs mountains every day, except when he has to shovel the snow.

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grandpa, a redneck nuc engineer,

now there's a contradiction. tounge_o.gif

but then again, he could be a Scandinavian descent!

Quote[/b] ]had to guard it with an ax until the MP's and a gas truck showed up.

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Why the hell would they say South Africa if the Golden Gate Bridge is right behind it?  tounge_o.gif  Maybe the African people built a exact replica of it.  wow_o.gif

Don't ask me why, but the whole picture was BS! tounge_o.gif

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Nice Yugo SKS and replacement stock. wink_o.gif

I still prefer the sign though wink_o.gifbiggrin_o.gif

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Not exactly military but I just noticed one thing in windows timezone map..

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