Posted on 10/18/2016 2:22:59 AM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com
OK sorry about that spacing! LOL
I remember years ago someone saying, “If you’re good at military combat, you can only get better.”
22. If your computer goes down the day after you installed a new video card... it could be a defective video card.
I walked into the repair shop after two days of struggling with it. Guy said I remember you (2 years ago he said my computer was the “biggest mess he ever seen”). I said: Hello. He said: We don’t work on desktops anymore. I said. Not good. He said: I’ll make an exception for you. I said: Good.
Turns out I had to return the video card for another one and just shortly returned home with it.
Guy charged me nothing!
That #6 is a really tough one for officers.
I was doing field exercises many years ago, and the scenario was that we were approaching enemy territory. The enlisted soldiers formed a “protective” formation around me. Meanwhile, I was thinking that if an enemy happened to be observing the formation, he would immediately notice that one person seems more important than the rest.
Fortunately, there is not a lot of enemy activity in Maryland and no one shot at me.
It appears you've never been to Baltimore.
Never run if you can walk
never walk if you can stand
never stand if you can sit
never sit if you can lay down
never lay down if you can sleep
never sleep if you can dream
if you dream about running.....run
:)
Good post.
A couple of “sand box 1 “ vets talking at a cowboy action shoot a couple of years back. 1 white 1 black agreed.
#22). “If it’s brown, take it down”
Bookmark.
"Your Operation Plan never lasts longer than your first encounter with the enemy"
"When the pin is pulled, Mr. Grenade is not your friend".
What, exactly does your comment have to do with combat?
Tracers work both ways.
Just b/c youre out of sight doesnt mean youre out of range.
22. If your computer goes down the day after you installed a new video card... it could be a defective video card."If you need to ask then you'll be dead.What, exactly does your comment have to do with combat?
My Dad said during WWII you were not allowed to salute the officer for same reason
In combat it would invite a sniper's bullet for the officer.
Actually, our GPS makes us drive through Baltimore because we told it we want to avoid the tolls on I-95. We've been lucky so far. I admit that it does make me nervous to drive on the surface streets there.
Even old farts like me have seen on AHC, grunts lugging computers sealed in heavy duty plastic cases.
I think the modern rules during combat are the same. (I have never been to an active combat zone.) Everyone wears subdued (embroidered on cloth rather than shiny metal) ranks for that reason, too.
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