Military Wisdom ( Archived) (9)

'If the Enemy is in range, so are you.'
'It is generally inadvisable to eject over the area you just bombed'
'Aim towards the Enemy'
'When the pin is pulled, Mr. Grenade is not our friend.'
'Whoever said the pen is mightier then the sword
obviously never encountered automatic weapons.'
'Try to look unimportant; they may be low on ammo.'
'You, you, and you. Panic. The rest of you come with me.'
'Tracers work both ways.'
'Five second fuses only last three seconds'
'Bravery is being the only one who knows you're afraid.'
'If your attack is going too well, you're walking into an ambush.'
'No combat-ready unit has ever passed inspection.'
'Any ship can be a minesweeper, Once.'
'Don't draw fire; it irritates the people around you.'
'If you see a bomb technician running, follow him.'
'You've never been lost until you've been lost at Mach 3.'
'The only time you have too much fuel is when you're on fire.'
'Blue water Navy truism: There are more planes
in the ocean than submarines in the sky.'
'If the wings are traveling faster than the fuselage, it's probably a helicopter -- and therefore,unsafe.'
'When one engine fails on a twin-engine airplane, you always have enough power left to get you to the scene of the crash.'
'Without ammunition, the USAF would be just another expensive flying club.'
'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.'
'Never trade luck for skill.'
The three most common expressions (or famous last words) in aviation are: 'Why is it doing that?', 'Where are we?' And 'Oh S...!'
'Weather forecasts are horoscopes with numbers.'
'Airspeed, altitude and brains. Two are always needed to complete the flight successfully.'
'Mankind has a perfect record in aviation; we never left one up there!'
'Flashlights are tubular metal containers kept in a flight bag to store dead batteries.'
'Flying the airplane is more important than radioing your plight to a person on the ground who is incapable of understanding or doing anything about it.'
'The Piper Cub is the safest airplane in the world;
it can just barely kill you.'
'A pilot who doesn't have any fear probably isn't flying his plane to its maximum.'
'If you're faced with a forced landing, fly the thing as far into the crash as possible.'
'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.'
Basic Flying Rules: 'Try to stay in the middle of the air. Do not go near the edges of it The edges of the air can be recognized by the appearance of ground, buildings, sea, trees and interstellar space. It is much more difficult to fly there.'
'You know that your landing gear is up and locked when it takes full power to taxi to the terminal.'
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!'

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