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I know, right? You'd think we were like pre-1914 England or something.
Dude, didn't I have the smiley face to tell you I was giving you a ration of shitt?Oh, not quite, not yet anyway. Great Britain mastered subjugation on a global scale quite unlike any other master race, self declared or otherwise. The USA has a long way to go before it ever matches the scope and size of the British Empire. To begin with, it has to sort out its obvious internal differences.
Also, I hope you guys realise that I made these comments with my tongue firmly planted in cheek! (being American, you might need that pointed out to you...)
Dude, didn't I have the smiley face to tell you I was giving you a ration of shitt?
Was that a challenge?Obviously, but it does need to be pointed out that Great Britain still holds the Number one spot for being the biggest dirtbags to indigenous races in world history, regardless of how hard modern superpowers try...
I met an APCM in 1974 who had been in for 40 years, and was flying left seat in a C9 with his son in law and CO, a newly frocked Rear Admiral as FO. He enlisted in 1934 and became an ordie, then a tail gunner, then sent to flight school under the cadet program, where he was denied commissioning due to what he described as a "couth deficit". Flew Helldivers (the biplane version), F4Fs and F6Fs in the RAG squadrons, then the early jets. He said he spent WWII stuck as an instructor in various RAG squadrons despite frantic efforts to get assigned to a deploying squadron. His SIL, the Admiral, said: "He shot himself in the foot by getting too good at what he did. They wouldn't let him go. Trained five Hellcat aces!"
This was their last trip together, as the new Admiral was being relieved as CO of the composite squadron and "kicked upstairs" to a Pentagon staff billet.
Obviously, but it does need to be pointed out that Great Britain still holds the Number one spot for being the biggest dirtbags to indigenous races in world history, regardless of how hard modern superpowers try...
Was that a challenge?
(You know the only difference between an American and a Aussie? The Aussie got caught.
Please excuse my ignorance.
AFCM?
VOC DET?
Great idea! I think I'll do likewise.So, to avoid further thread drift, I'll take a break and have a drink.
I had fun with that comment in Perth many decades ago. Although at 21, I didn't realize how much it would upset the people who were in their 60's. (Or maybe 70's)Ha haaa! You mean you haven't started?
Now you're really betraying your origins...So, to avoid further thread drift, I'll take a break and have a drink.
I had fun with that comment in Perth many decades ago.
And an APCM is an obsolete rate, Aviation Pilot Chief (Master), which was actually abolished years ago, before E8 (Senior) and E9 (Master) Chief rates were established, by Macnamara, I think. The Navy seemed to humor the few old guys who were still active by letting them wear the insignia. (Probably to avoid suffering anal enlargement.)AFCM is a E-9 Master Chief that combined a few "rates" such as airframes, engines, hydraulics.
Great minds think alike.
The funny thing is when I lived in Australia, the majority of them had the driest senses of humour. Not much offends them. I like that about them.
I seem to recall the last one retiring in the early 80's out of a VP outfit.And an APCM is an obsolete rate, Aviation Pilot Chief (Master), which was actually abolished years ago, before E8 (Senior) and E9 (Master) Chief rates were established, by Macnamara, I think. The Navy seemed to humor the few old guys who were still active by letting them wear the insignia. (Probably to avoid suffering anal enlargement.)
Probably because she was in and out of the repair yards so many times in 1942 from torpedo hits. A pity really as she is my second favorite after Enterprise.I don't know why I keep forgetting about U.S.S. Saratoga.
The Lexington class were pretty cool looking.Probably because she was in and out of the repair yards so many times in 1942 from torpedo hits. A pity really as she is my second favorite after Enterprise.