"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.

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

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"When the pin is pulled, Mr. Grenade is not our friend. - U.S. Marine Corps

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"Cluster bombing from B-52s are very, very accurate. The bombs are guaranteed to always hit the ground." - USAF Ammo Troop

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"If the enemy is in range! , so are you." - Infantry Journal

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

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"Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons." - General Macarthur

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

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"You, you, and you . Panic. The rest of you, come with me." - U.S. Marine Corp Gunnery Sgt.

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"Tracers work both ways." - U.S. Army Ordnance

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"Five second fuses only last three seconds." - Infantry Journal

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"Don't ever be the first, don't ever be the last, and don' t ever volunteer to do anything." - U.S. Navy Swabbie

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"Bravery is being the only one who knows you're afraid." - David Hackworth

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"If your attack is going too well, you're walking into an ambush." - Infantry Journal

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

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"Any ship can be a minesweeper. Once."

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"Never tell the Platoon Sergeant you have nothing to do." - Unknown Marine Recruit

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"Don't draw fire; it irritates the people around you." - Your Buddies

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"If you see a bomb technician running, follow him." - USAF Ammo Troop

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"Though I Fly Through the Valley of Death, I Shall Fear No Evil. For I am at 80,000 Feet and Climbing." - At the entrance to the old SR-71 operating base Kadena, Japan

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"You've never been lost until you've been lost at Mach 3." - Paul F. Crickmore (test pilot)

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"The only time you have too much fuel is when you're on fire."

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"Blue water Navy truism: There are more planes in the ocean than submarines in the sky." - From an old carrier sailor

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"If the wings are traveling faster than the fuselage, it's probably a helicopter -- and therefore, unsafe."

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"When one engine fails on a twin-engine airplane you always have enough power left to get you to the scene of the crash."

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"Without ammunition, the USAF would be just another expensive flying club."

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"What is the similarity between air traffic controllers and pilots? If a pilot screws up, the pilot dies; If ATC screws up, .. The pilot dies."

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"Never trade luck for skill."

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The three most common expressions (or famous last words) in aviation are: "Why is it doing that?", "Where are we?" And "Oh S...!"

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"Progress in airline flying: now a flight attendant can get a pilot pregnant."

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"Airspeed, altitude and brains. Two are always needed to successfully complete the flight."

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"A smooth landing is mostly luck; two in a row is all luck; three in a row is prevarication."

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"I remember when sex was safe and flying was dangerous."

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"Mankind has a perfect record in aviation; we never left one up there!"

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"Flying the airplane is more important than radioing your plight to a person on the ground incapable of understanding or doing anything about it."

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"The Piper Cub is the safest airplane in the world; it can just barely kill you." - Attributed to Max Stanley (Northrop test pilot)


"There is no reason to fly through a thunderstorm in peacetime." - Sign over squadron ops desk at Davis-Monthan AFB, AZ, 1970

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"If something hasn't broken on your helicopter, it's about to."

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"You know that your landing gear is up and locked when it takes full power to taxi to the terminal."

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As the test pilot climbs out of the experimental aircraft, having torn off the wings and tail in the crash landing, the crash truck arrives, the rescuer sees a bloodied pilot and asks "What happened?".


The pilot's reply: "I don't know, I just got here myself!" - Attributed to Ray Crandell (Lockheed test pilot)


Look both ways before crossing the sky.

Heres a good topic heopfully to liven these forums up.. What the hell do you hate?

One thing I hate that I heard on the radio today, is people that pronounce Mario, in Super Mario Brothers, like Mary-o...

ITS MAR-IO.. NOT MARY-O

Anyone else ever hear that ebfore, I remember as a kid I had at least one kid i met that pronounced it Marryo.

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On a completely unrelated subject to hatred, why do we pronounce cleanliness like Clenliness.. I think thats wierd because the word CLEAN doesn't change.. CLEENliness doesnt sound right but maybe its because we have always siad it that way. Who determined that it would change pronunciation, CLEANLY also changes to CLENly if used as an adjective. So i guess that is why, but...

To add on to my puzzlement, I really wonder who started to make the dictionary/english language... Im sure its smoewhat documented seomwhere, just something i have never learned about.. Did some cavemen get together and start coming up with a language that just kept adding on the smarter humans got.. So whoever wrote the english(latin really becuase most eng. words are based on latin) language, did they have to take a picture of lets say a book.. and you just have a room of 100 guys lets say, and they all just make sounds with their mouth until somesays yes, booook, booook, how about book everyone? book book book, and they all chant like imbeciles.. then the head guy writes down book next to a picture of a book. And they did this for every word imaginable... Picture of the woman body... BOOOB, BOOOBBYY, ok Boob, also known as Booby goes next to picture of boobs.. VAGGY.. VAGGINA, How about Vagina everyone?

Like seriously, how did they come up with each language. Well latin i guess, since that is the basis for most of them.. who were the all mighty latin people that decided these words.