MArooned: More Fun From the Museum...

Friday, April 22, 2011

More Fun From the Museum...

Heh. I couldn't resist this one:

Careful with that missile Eugene

I can't tell if this is better or worse than "Front towards enemy" printed on claymore mines...

That is all.

6 comments:

KurtP said...: One of the reasons they did that was so you could feel which side was which at night. There are no raised letters on the back.; April 22, 2011 at 10:28 AM
North said...: I think the claymore could just have easily has a sticker on that side that says "If you can read this, you're dead."; April 22, 2011 at 10:38 AM
wizardpc said...: When my brother started his naval career, his job was to load and arm the ordnance on aircraft before they left, and then disarm and unload unused ordnance when they got back.

He said the word that gave him nightmares was "Whoops!"

(Incidentally, he was on one of the carriers used in the initial bombing of Afghanistan in 2001. When he came back, he said something along the lines of "I LOVED IT. I got paid twice as much [combat pay, cruise pay, hazard pay] to do half my job [no need to unload the planes when they got back]!"); April 22, 2011 at 10:38 AM
Daddy Hawk said...: Who would have guessed there's really a problem with ordnance guys using missiles for baton twirling practice?; April 22, 2011 at 10:57 AM
Dave H said...: Does anybody else think that looks like a piece of PVC pipe?

At least it doesn't say "Place on aircraft... ight fuse... run away."; April 22, 2011 at 11:05 AM
Anonymous said...: The don't roll, tumble, or drop is for missiles. We issued plenty of dumb iron bombs that had been dropped a foot or so. If I remember the 11A15 TO says drop criteria for a 500 lb bomb was 4 feet. If you dropped it less than that just do an inspection and if you didn't find any defects it was good to go. That always bothered the pilots when we told them that; don't know why :-); April 24, 2011 at 1:16 PM