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Subject: Re: [OM] Lensbaby fot MfT
From: Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2010 20:32:30 -0400
The 45 automatic in question was not the property of the shooter but was 
removed from the holster of the Air Policeman standing guard at the 
door.  He hadn't expected to be taken from behind.  :-)

Chuck Norcutt


On 9/25/2010 12:00 PM, Bob Whitmire wrote:
> The Army would not let us remained armed when in the presence of the code. 
> Even in Vietnam, we had to stack our weapons in a rack at the back of the, 
> ah, facility. The mills were upright manual Underwoods, and I always wanted 
> to drop a hand grenade into the guts of one and stand back to watch.
>
> --Bob Whitmire
> www.bobwhitmire.com
>
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> On Sep 24, 2010, at 9:38 AM, Chuck Norcutt wrote:
>
>> I know about one of those Air Force "mills" (but that's an Army term)
>> that was not defenstrated.  It's punishment was much more severe.  It
>> was treated to a few rounds from a 45 caliber automatic.  :-)
>>
>> Chuck Norcutt
>>
>>
>> On 9/24/2010 7:36 AM, Bob Whitmire wrote:
>>> When I was in training to be a radio intercept operator back in the
>>> late '60s, the Army taught us how to copy code by sending dits and
>>> dahs through headphones to groups of 30 or so trainees. We then would
>>> shout, for example, "Dit-Dah! Alpha!" and allow the pinkies of our
>>> left hands to depress the A key. The typewriters were called "mills,"
>>> and typed in all caps. Learning the code was apparently not
>>> everyone's cuppa, and during my training cycle, several trainees
>>> defenestrated their mills, much to the consternation of the
>>> instructors. If you washed out of code school, your enlistment was
>>> truncated to three years from four, but your new assignment was
>>> usually Infantry Training School.
>>>
>>> FWIW, I defenestrated nothing or no one, and learned the code so well
>>> that I still can recite it nearly flawlessly. Copy it, too, if the
>>> operator isn't too ham fisted.
>>>
>>> --Bob Whitmire www.bobwhitmire.com
>>>
>>
>
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