In the News- Marines & MCL

MILITARY WISDOM

'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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'You, you, and you ... Panic. The rest of you, come with me.' - U.S. Marine Corps 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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'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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'If you see a bomb technician running, keep up with 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.'

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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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'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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'Even with ammunition, the USAF is 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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'Airspeed, altitude and brains. Two are always needed to successfully complete the flight.'

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'Mankind has a perfect record in aviation; we've 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.' - Max Stanley (Northrop test pilot)

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'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