Actual Military Warnings

Stolen from Right Nation.us ^ | March 3, 2007 | Unknown

[Kaslin]

Genuine warnings written on military equipment and publications:

“Aim towards the Enemy.” -Instruction printed on US Rocket Launcher

“When the pin is pulled, Mr. Grenade is not our friend.” -U.S. Army

“Cluster bombing from B-52s is very, very accurate. The bombs are guaranteed to always hit the ground.” U.S.A.F.Ammo Troop

“If the enemy is in range, so are you.” -Infantry Journal

“A slipping gear could let your M203 grenade launcher fire when you least expect it. That would make you quite unpopular in what’s left of your unit.” -Army’s magazine of preventive maintenance.

“It is generally inadvisable to eject directly over the area you just bombed.” -U.S. Air Force Manual

“Try to look unimportant; they may be low on ammo.” -Infantry Journal

“Tracers work both ways.” -U.S. Army Ordnance

“Five-second fuses only last three seconds.” -Infantry Journal

“Bravery is being the only one who knows you’re afraid.” –Col. David Hackworth

“If your attack is going too well, you’re probably walking into an ambush.” -Infantry Journal

“No combat-ready unit has ever passed inspection.” -Joe Gay

“Any ship can be a minesweeper … once.”-Anon

“Never tell the Platoon Sergeant you have nothing to do.” Unknown Army Recruit

“Don’t draw fire; it irritates the people around you.” -Unknown

(And lastly) “If you see a bomb technician running, try to keep up with him.” –U.S.A. Ammo Troop

[Vision]

“When the pin is pulled, Mr. Grenade is not our friend.” -U.S. Army

“It is generally inadvisable to eject directly over the area you just bombed.” -U.S. Air Force Manual

LOL

[MNJohnnie]

* Friendly fire - isn't.
* Recoilless rifles - aren't.
* Suppressive fires - won't.
* You are not Superman; Marines and fighter pilots take note.
* A sucking chest wound is Nature's way of telling you to slow down.
* If it's stupid but it works, it isn't stupid.
* Try to look unimportant; the enemy may be low on ammo and not want to waste a bullet on you.
* If at first you don't succeed, call in an airstrike.
* If you are forward of your position, your artillery will fall short.
* Never share a foxhole with anyone braver than yourself.
* Never go to bed with anyone crazier than yourself.
* Never forget that your weapon was made by the lowest bidder.
* If your attack is going really well, it's an ambush.
* The enemy diversion you're ignoring is their main attack.
* The enemy invariably attacks on two occasions: when they're ready. & when you're not.
* No OPLAN ever survives initial contact.
* There is no such thing as a perfect plan.
* Five second fuzes always burn three seconds.
* There is no such thing as an atheist in a foxhole.
* A retreating enemy is probably just falling back and regrouping.
* The pointy end goes in.

[MNJohnnie]

1. If the enemy is in range, so are you.
2. If you can see the enemy, they can see you.
3. Incoming fire has the right of way.
4. Friendly fire isn't.
5. The only thing more accurate than incoming enemy fire is incoming friendly fire.
6. Don't look conspicuous: it draws fire. This is why aircraft carriers are called bomb magnets.
7. There is always a way.
8. The easy way is always mined.
9. Try to look unimportant, they may be low on ammo.
10. Professionals are predictable, it's the amateurs that are dangerous.
11. The enemy only attacks on one of two occasions: When you're ready for them, and when you're not ready for them.
12. Teamwork is essential; it gives the enemy someone else to shoot at.
13. If you can't remember, the claymore is pointed at you.
14. If your attack is going well, you have walked into an ambush.
15. The enemy diversion you have been ignoring will be the main attack.
16. Don't draw fire, it irritates the people around you.
17. When the pin is pulled, Mr. Grenade is not our friend.
18. If it's stupid but works, then it isn't stupid.
19. When in doubt empty the magazine.
20. Never share a fox hole with anyone braver than you.
21. Anything you do can get you shot. Including doing nothing.
22. Make it too tough for the enemy to get in and you can't get out.
23. Mines are equal opportunity weapons.
24. A Purple Heart just proves that were you smart enough to think of a plan, stupid enough to try it, and lucky enough to survive.
25. Don't ever be the first, don't ever be the last and don't ever volunteer to do anything.
26. The quartermaster has only two sizes: too large and too small.
27. Five second fuses only last three seconds.
28. It is generally inadvisable to eject directly over the area you just bombed.
29. A "sucking chest wound" is nature's way of telling you to slow down.
30. If you're short of everything but the enemy, you're in a combat zone.
31. When you have secured an area, don't forget to tell the enemy.
32. Never forget that your weapon is made by the lowest bidder.
33. You are not a superman.
34. No plan survives the first contact intact.
35. If you are forward of your position the artillery will always fall short.
36. The important things are always simple.
37. The simple things are always hard.
38. No combat ready unit ever passed inspection.
39. Beer math: two beers times 37 men equal 49 cases.
40. Body count math: two guerillas plus one portable plus two pigs equals 37 enemy KIA.
41. Things that must be together to work usually can't be shipped together.
42. Radios will fail as soon as you desperately need fire support.
43. Tracers work both ways.
44. If you take more than your fair share of objectives, you will have more than your fair share of objectives to take.
45. When both sides are convinced that they are about to lose, they are both right.
46. If it moves, shoot it.
47. If it doesn't move, poke it with your gun barrel and then shoot it.
48. Overkill works.
49. Murphy was a grunt.

[AnAmericanMother]

Those are the Marine Rules of Combat.

Here are the Navy Rules of Combat:

1. Assume an aggressive offshore posture.

2. Make coffee.

3. Send in the Marines.

[JRandomFreeper]

The United States Air Force is the only American Fighting Force where the enlisted pat their officers on the head and send them into combat. And I like it like that. 'Go git 'em, sir.'

/johnny

[azcap]

I will never forget during my first year of Army ROTC I was flipping through the old training manuals in the cadet lounge when I found the manual for the MGM-52. The manual was done in comic book format featuring numerous cartoon images for instruction. The MGM-52 Lance for those of you who never met one is a medium range nuclear missile.

[ansel12]

"The United States Air Force is the only American Fighting Force where the enlisted pat their officers on the head and send them into combat. And I like it like that. 'Go git 'em, sir.'

/johnny





That is a great one.

[JB in Whitefish]

" Here are the Navy Rules of Combat:"


All right now, let's not start a flame war....

I can assure sailors are VERY fond of those ocean-going bell hops.

Aaaah, yes, the Navy....200 years of pride and tradition unhampered by progress....!!!

Just a few simple rules:

1. Don't pee into the wind, the Captain may be standing behind you.

2. Never be the last guy to the abandon ship drill.

The second-most feared words in the Navy:

"This is NOT a drill"

The MOST feared words in the Navy:

"Shore leave has just been cancelled"

[SoCal Pubbie]

"If the enemy is in range, so are you."

Depending on the weapons, I don't believe that's always true.

[aculeus]

In With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa by Eugene Sledge the author tells of raw marines unpacking grenades from their cardboard cylinders and throwing the unarmed grenade at the enemy who then pulled the pin and tossed it back at the marines.

[ExcursionGuy84]

If you can see the enemy, they can see you.

Ghillie suit anyone?

[JockoManning]

Actual military warnings marker.

[struwwelpeter]

[Starboard]

For those who have Deck Force experience:

If it doesn't move, paint it!

[Hot Tabasco]

“When the pin is pulled, Mr. Grenade is not our friend.” -U.S. Army

Another one: "Pull pin on grenade and throw grenade at enemy. You don't have to hit him in the head."

[JoeGar]

“It is generally inadvisable to eject directly over the area you just bombed.”

This actually happened to two friends of mine -- one was in Laos and one in North Vietnam. Both survived only due to the heroics of USAF Jolly Greens, their Parajumpers, and their supporting Spads. Hollywood has never fictionalized anything nearly as courageous as those guys on those days.

[Larry Lucido]

“Aim towards the Enemy.” -Instruction printed on US Rocket Launcher

"Front toward Enemy." In bold, raised letters on the front of a Claymore.

[Larry Lucido]

[JB in Whitefish]

I believe the entire statement is:

If it moves, salute it.

If it doesn't move, paint it grey.

[USN 1967-70]

I was trying hard to come up with printable excerpts of my vast at sea knowledge.

And, of course there's that all-purpose answer to the question of the day:

"Because we've ALWAYS done it that way, now get back to work or I'm gonna start kickin' ass and takin' names...!!!"

[JRios1968]

"If you ain't AMMO, you ain't s..t" (the ever-popular USAF ammo motto...)

[M1911A1]

That used top be a great rag with a lot of cheesecake to make the PM lessons readable. Now it is a dreary, PC publication.

Look at that cover. The old school PS monthly would have had the female properly attired in a 1960's Star Trek miniskirt, for crying out loud.

[M1911A1]

Does that mean that if you are AMMO, you are s..t?

I'm just a curious jarhead. :-)

[JRios1968]

That's what you're led to think, don't you think?

[Calvin Locke]

“It is generally inadvisable to eject directly over the area you just bombed.”

A local newspaper article had a WWII vet saying that when he got shot down over Germany, the SS saved his butt from the local populace that were none too happy with "him" dropping bombs on them.

[Sender]

I am stealing one of these for my tagline.

[SauronOfMordor]

"Front toward Enemy"

When you haven't slept in days due to being in a long-running battle, and you're distracted by all sorts of unpleasant people who, for some odd reason, keep trying to kill you, it's easy to forget something. Every little bit helps

[Larry Lucido]

Oh, I'd have to agree. I wouldn't want to leave anything to chance in such circumstances.

[ASOC]

All good stuff.

A Marine Corollary

It is perfectly fine to use a sledgehammer to kill a gnat.

The gnat is positively dead and the sledgehammer is not damaged.

cor·ol·lar·y
–noun, plural -lar·ies.
1. Mathematics. a proposition that is incidentally proved in proving another proposition.
2. an immediate consequence or easily drawn conclusion.
3. a natural consequence or result.

[stevie_d_64]

I like this one from a while back...

"When in doubt, empty the magazine."

[ASOC]

LOL

Always carry a pistol whose caliber starts with a 4

Happiness is a crew served weapon

Favorite quote from a war movie featuring B17s... Why have a battle when you can have a war? (radio operator starts pounding brass in background...)

[LjubivojeRadosavljevic]

["1. Mathematics. a proposition that is incidentally proved in proving another proposition....'"]

But, more importantly, you forgot the "law of unintended consequences."

1. The aftermath of WW2 where the Soviet Union took control of eastern Europe.

2. The aftermath of the (current) war in Iraq and the subsequent rise of Iran.

All unexpected.

[Yehuda]

"But, more importantly, you forgot the "law of unintended consequences."
1. The aftermath of WW2 where the Soviet Union took control of eastern Europe.
2. The aftermath of the (current) war in Iraq and the subsequent rise of Iran.
All unexpected."

Not unexpected. Issues were raised and ignored.

"The aftermath of WW2 where the Soviet Union took control of eastern Europe."

Patton and many others suggested immediately turning around and crushing or at least thwarting CCCP - leftists in State and media convinced Truman otherwise...

"2. The aftermath of the (current) war in Iraq and the subsequent rise of Iran."

Many have criticized the "too-early nation-building"/PC running of the Iraq war, and many have acknowledged that surrounding Iran from Iraq and Afghanistan is a good thing. Again, leftist in the media and State (and arabists in State) beat out the the true-believers in the WH and the millitary.