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To: JRandomFreeper; Two Thirds Vote Aye
You'll figure it out. Everybody values a little solitude, sometimes. Ah, the memory ank kicks in finally. Cats cannot resist the crinkling of cellophane. Pick a suspected hiding spot, move stealthily near it and, with a good view, crinkle away! Methinks the missing kitten will appear... How old are they?

Why is the deuce-5 on the DND list? Old, unarmored, better available transports?

Do you ever get to go for a fly and drive the airplane [unofficially, of course]? Paybacks can be hell, for the right 0-5... ;)

Thirds, also cell-free here. I don't understand why everyone here has one of those bloody things to their ear every momemt of every day. Insecurity? [Is it the 'I've gotta be talking to somebody or I'm nobody syndrome?'] Post my vote on yea for emergency, nay for BS'ing for no good reason!

196 posted on 12/23/2005 2:19:16 PM PST by W. (Lying is a skill! To maintain a level of excellence, you have to practice constantly!--DNC handout)
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To: W.
Do you ever get to go for a fly and drive the airplane

NEVER!!!!! I never fly military unless REQUIRED and the option is NJP or courts martial. I would NEVER fly in a fighter. Period. Paragraph. Turn the page. Amen.

I literally wrote the book on parts of the avionics of several, back in the DOD contractor days. I know too much. Hydrazine, sitting on a rocket, flying a fuel can surrounding a hot jet engine... They aren't safe. Neither to the bad guys on the ground, or good guys in the air. One little bitty mistake, and you become a superheated grease spot. Back in the day, I've picked up remains/equipment from a high performance jet that met an untimely end.

NOPE! Thanks for playing, though.

/johnny

198 posted on 12/23/2005 2:47:25 PM PST by JRandomFreeper (D@mit! I'm just a cook. Don't make me come over there and prove it!)
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To: W.
Why is the deuce-5 on the DND list?

Don't know. I heard that on NPR, and then checked with transportation to confirm. NPR actually got one right.

No reason given, just the factoid confirmed.

/johnny

204 posted on 12/23/2005 4:03:06 PM PST by JRandomFreeper (D@mit! I'm just a cook. Don't make me come over there and prove it!)
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