Posted on 09/25/2018 6:40:00 PM PDT by Redcitizen
Don't shoot anyone on post, don't sleep with your squad mate's spouse, don't snort unknown substances and don't live in your car while collecting rent money from the Army.
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Anyone have any unusual safety briefings?
“Be where you’re supposed to be, when you’re supposed to be there. Wear a rubber.”
Don’t walk between the props and the fuselage.
That would make sense I think but I know nothing about airplanes.
Don’t eat the yellow snow.
Had an instructor get his finger cut off while showing us why you don’t push the firing pin on a tank with your finger. Course as as an experienced tanker and turret mechanic I already knew that. Whacked it right off. He wasn’t even to the hospital before the other instructors drew a hand missing a finger on his chalkboard.
It's very difficult to find instructors with that level of dedication. You were very fortunate.
That last would be needed for a formation of soldiers.
Breech block got released and came up fast?
That’s what you would expect of his fellow instructors. I bet they came up with a nickname for him.
LOL!
No, he didn’t set the tension back on the breech block after dropping it. Once that firing pin goes in and pops back out, that 90 pound breech block is going to drop right out on the floor. Watch your fingers and feet !
They were the final words of wisdom delivered by our 1st Sgt., at the last company formation on Fridays.
Don’t stand behind a recoilless.
Move your hand quickly once you drop a mortar round down the tube.
Don’t piss into the wind.
Don’t tug on Superman’s cape.
Young men do stupid things. They need to do stupid things in wartime. It is what it is.
I was the safety NCO for several years. I had to come up with some creative ways, to keep their attention. Most of the time, I don’t think anyone was paying attention to me. They knew they shouldn’t shoot anyone, or sleep with the supervisor’s wife, or attend any parties, that they might have to recall, 40 years later. 👎
Safety could be summed up in two words. Common sense. Sometimes, people were lacking a little bit of that.
True. most of the time nothing happened so common sense prevailed.
Most memorable one in the days before PC.
“Be careful where you piss. There might br an electrical outlet hidden under the snow piled against the wall.
It could kill all your little swimmers.”
Needless to say, that got our attention. It had happened the previous weekend to some poor airman outside a strip club on Colfax Avenue in Denver.
Don't subtract from the population
Don't get thrown in jail
If you do get thrown in jail, establish dominance quickly.
The Master Sergeant didn’t want us to be done too early, so he gave us a 45 minute briefing on SOS.
Yep.
Shirt Ona Shingle
45 minutes.
“First, you put down the shingle. Don’t put the shirt down first. The shirt must rest atop the shingle. You don’t want to cover up the shirt with the shingle.”
On and on for 45 minutes.
It became known as The Shirt On A Shingle Speech.
I think it’s still in use in high school speech clubs.
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