Gotta make a quick trip to Louisiana, I’ll be passing through Atlanta on the 12th of July. Anybody interested in getting together for lunch around 11:30-12:00ish???
I talked briefly with Borepatch and he’ll try to find a place to host us. If you’re interested, drop a note in comments.
Thanks…
Another one pitching buying Bonds and Stamps…
This one was actually drawn by a father/son team of J Walter and Walter G Wilkinson, one of many they did for the war bond program.
Edit- It figures… I’m on a redeye and the damn post doesn’t go up as scheduled… sorry…
Sometimes it’s a GOOD thing to be in a Harrier…
And having a footstool handy…
Kudos not only to the pilot, but the Marines to have the forethought to actually PLAN for something like this…
To My Old-As-Dirt Friends and Relatives who qualify as “old as dirt” and, to some younger folks who are trying to understand the behavior of the “old as dirt” crowd.
For those who never saw any of the Burma Shave signs, here is a quick lesson in our history of the 1930’s and ’40’s.
Before there were interstates, when everyone drove the old 2 lane roads, Burma Shave signs would be posted all over the countryside in farmers’ fields. They were small red signs with white letters. Five signs, about 100 feet apart, each containing 1 line of a 4 line couplet……and the obligatory 5th sign advertising Burma Shave, a popular shaving cream.
DON’T STICK YOUR ELBOW
OUT SO FAR
IT MAY GO HOME
IN ANOTHER CAR.
Burma Shave
TRAINS DON’T WANDER
ALL OVER THE MAP
‘CAUSE NOBODY SITS
IN THE ENGINEER’S LAP
Burma Shave
SHE KISSED THE HAIRBRUSH
BY MISTAKE
SHE THOUGHT IT WAS
HER HUSBAND JAKE
Burma Shave
DON’T LOSE YOUR HEAD
TO GAIN A MINUTE
YOU NEED YOUR HEAD
YOUR BRAINS ARE IN IT
Burma Shave
DROVE TOO LONG
DRIVER SNOOZING
WHAT HAPPENED NEXT
IS NOT AMUSING
Burma Shave
BROTHER SPEEDER
LET’S REHEARSE
ALL TOGETHER
GOOD MORNING, NURSE
Burma Shave
CAUTIOUS RIDER
TO HER RECKLESS DEAR
LET’S HAVE LESS BULL
AND A LITTLE MORE STEER
Burma Shave
SPEED WAS HIGH
WEATHER WAS NOT
TIRES WERE THIN
X MARKS THE SPOT
Burma Shave
THE MIDNIGHT RIDE
OF PAUL FOR BEER
LED TO A WARMER
HEMISPHERE
Burma Shave
AROUND THE CURVE
LICKETY-SPLIT
BEAUTIFUL CAR
WASN’T IT?
Burma Shave
NO MATTER THE PRICE
NO MATTER HOW NEW
THE BEST SAFETY DEVICE
IN THE CAR IS YOU
Burma Shave
A GUY WHO DRIVES
A CAR WIDE OPEN
IS NOT THINKIN’
HE’S JUST HOPIN’
Burma Shave
AT INTERSECTIONS
LOOK EACH WAY
A HARP SOUNDS NICE
BUT IT’S HARD TO PLAY
Burma Shave
BOTH HANDS ON THE WHEEL
EYES ON THE ROAD
THAT’S THE SKILLFUL
DRIVER’S CODE
Burma Shave
THE ONE WHO DRIVES
WHEN HE’S BEEN DRINKING
DEPENDS ON YOU
TO DO HIS THINKING
Burma Shave
CAR IN DITCH
DRIVER IN TREE
THE MOON WAS FULL
AND SO WAS HE.
Burma Shave
PASSING SCHOOL ZONE
TAKE IT SLOW
LET OUR LITTLE
SHAVERS GROW
Burma Shave
Do these bring back any old memories? If not, you’re merely a child… 🙂
In all the years I’ve ridden, and been around horses, this is a new one…
If only I’d known it was that simple… 🙂
h/t JP
We R doin it rong… And have been since 1906!
Mathematicians… Sigh…
Of course most of the cakes I’m around are at work, so they’re gone in about 10 minutes…
Travel claims…
Anybody that spent time in the military has a ton of stories of travel claims gone wrong. Juvat’s four part tale of woe over at Old AF Sarge HERE makes me wonder how THAT travel claim went, and it reminded me of one such incident that happened to us back in the day.
Normally when you deploy as a squadron you’re on what is called blanket travel, e.g. one set of travel orders for the entire squadron. However…
We were detached from the deployment site for various missions and thereby lies the tale…
We were detached on a set of 3 day TAD orders to go from site A to B to fly one mission. Having flown said mission we were preparing to depart when we received ‘further tasking’ from higher, now requiring us to go from B to C (and change operational commanders). So two more flights from C and we’re… NOT going back… Now going to D…
From D we fly one mission, recover at E, fly and back to D on day 11. With me so far?
So we finally get told we can leave, fly back to C, crew rest and get up to go back to A… Not so fast, changed orders from original operational commander now wants us at location F… Sigh… And it’s COLD, and we have flight suits, and shorts and polo shirts… And we’re out of money… And have been for a week…
On arrival at F, we go on alert to fly… for NINE @#$%^% days… and never fly. Finally get a day off, then five more days on alert, before we’re released.
Finally arrive back at site A 26 days after we left on a 3 day trip… A hour after landing, we’re told we’re going BACK to site F 12 hours later, and spend another two weeks there, flying twice (on another set of TAD orders for 3 days).
Now as all good aviators know, you always get your orders stamped in and out on travel (CYA don’t you know)… Problem was Site E didn’t have anybody that was Navy to stamp the orders, so the USAF det stamped them, before we went out to the hotel (and didn’t stamp quarters not available on the orders).
Soooo… End of deployment, and we are all frantically digging in helmet bags, Nav bags, and flight suits for old copies of TAD orders, receipts, etc. Manage to find enough to cover all the dets (59 days of a 178 day deployment), and the entire crew duly fills out the claims so that everyone’s matches (I think it was something like an 11 page claim)…
And we Xerox and attach probably an additional 30 pages of documentation, orders, receipts, etc. to each claim. As the mission commander, it was my job to make sure they got into Personnel so they could be submitted for payment, so after a double check, I trot my happy ass down to Personnel, turn every body’s claim in rubber banded together to the Personnel Chief (Now my Nav at the time was a finance and accounting major, he’d done some calculations and figured we were owed somewhere between $2000 and $3000 dollars).
A month, maybe a month and a half goes by, most of the people in the squadron have been paid, and not a single one of us has seen anything… So I go talk to Personnel, they tell me to wait, Travel will get to them eventually…
Another couple of weeks go by and finally the flight engineer gets a check. For $21!!!
WTF???
I tell him don’t cash it, and back to Personnel I go… Get the Personnel Officer in his office and I ‘think’ I might have been a tad irate about this time… So he calls over to Travel- Sure enough NONE of us is getting over $50 back. I think I might have made a mild threat about this time, and told him ‘I’ was personally going to Travel to chat with them.
I stopped back in the office on the way out the door and picked up my Xerox copy of the claim I’d submitted and off to Travel I went. After a couple of rounds with the front desk and one supervisor, I finally got to the Travel Officer, and he saw that I wasn’t going away. So he calls in the Chief and one of the people to ‘explain’ to this dumbass aviator why he wasn’t getting any money back. Low and behold, they bring in our claims and there is not a SINGLE piece of paper for justification attached!!!
I show them the Xerox of my original claim, and they profess ignorance, saying they can’t pay and almost but not quite accusing me of defrauding the government by filing a false claim. I point out each copy that supports every TAD trip, and the Chief seizes on the 3 day cum 26 day trip, stating they were only valid for the 3 original days. He needed more documentation to actually prove we’d been to the other places, to which I pointed out the various stamps on the reverse…
Still not good enough… At this point I was pissed, so back to the squadron I go, and into the vault, because I knew there were classified orders directing us place to place. Sure enough, I find message traffic from higher to the CO directing each step of our trips. I get with the custodian and he makes up a package of all the messages, and signs them out to Travel with me as the courier for the next morning.
Next day it’s back to Travel, and I walk into the Travel Officer’s office package in hand, and flop it on his desk and tell him to sign. Of course he wants to know what he’s signing for, and about that time the Chief comes in. I tell the officer it’s classified message traffic up to X level, and verifies all our travel. He literally refused to touch it, and looked at the Chief, telling him to take the copy I’d brought of the justification and pay us. The Chief had done some checking and told me as an aside, that when the paperwork had come in to Travel, there wasn’t ANY justification attached to any of our claims.
Back to our Personnel office I go, and find out the asshole assistant personnel officer decided since the travel claims didn’t all fit in the boxes he had, to rip our 30 pages of justifications off our 11 claims so everything would fit in the box.
Sigh…
Two weeks later we finally got paid, almost a month later than the rest of the squadron.
OBTW, that asshole assistant personnel officer is now flying for Delta and STILL can’t sign for an airplane… 🙂
Judge orders break in sailor’s child custody case…
It appears ‘somebody’ got to that judge up in MI that was trying to haul the sailor in today.
She’s now ‘claiming’ she didn’t know he was at sea! Bulls**t!!!
Since this article is on AP, here’s the LINK and I’m not quoting any of it.
Sounds like enough folks weighed in that she was afraid to go forward and has now delayed the hearing until later in the year. Thanks to those who called, emailed and raised enough hell that this sailor isn’t going to get screwed (this time)…
Thank you!
h/t Les
Why Pilots Prefer Airplanes Over Women…
* Airplanes usually kill you quickly; a woman takes her time.
* Airplanes can be turned on by a flick of a switch.
* Airplanes don’t get mad if you do a “touch and go.”
* Airplanes don’t object to a pre-flight inspection.
* Airplanes come with a manual to explain their operation.
* Airplanes have strict weight and balance limitations.
* Airplanes can be flown at any time of the month.
* Airplanes don’t come with in-laws.
* Airplanes don’t care about how many other airplanes you’ve flown before.
* Airplanes and pilots both arrive at the same time.
* Airplanes don’t mind if you look at other airplanes.
* Airplanes don’t mind if you buy airplane magazines.
* Airplanes expect to be tied down.
* Airplanes don’t comment on your piloting skills.
* Airplanes don’t whine unless something is really wrong.
* However, when airplanes go quiet, just like women, it’s usually not good.
And a tribute to a great old airplane!!! Ode to a DHC-2!
Blame JP for these… 🙂
And a bonus one- Starting any radial is ‘interesting’… Not anywhere near as simple as a Jet… Just sayin… This one is for Brigid! 🙂
Note- We used to count blades, 3-4 turns equates to 9-12 blades which is the same thing we used starting the 1820’s and 3350’s… And it usually takes about 5-15 minutes for the engine to actually get up to operating temps…
It’s the Air Corps turn…
This is a late war (1945) poster recruiting for the Army Air Corps at the height of the bombing effort.
This one was done by Jes Schlaikjer. Who, although of German extraction, served with the US Army in France in WWI as a radio operator and was a noted Artist after the war. In 1942 he became an official Artist of the U.S War Department with a studio on the Pentagon.