Common Sense Military Rules

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"Any ship can be a minesweeper. Once."

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"If you see a bomb technician running, follow him."

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"If the enemy is in range, so are you."

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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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"Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons."

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"Five second fuses only last three seconds."

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"If something hasn't broken on your helicopter, it's about to."

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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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"It is generally inadvisable to eject directly over the area you just bombed."

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"The only time you have too much fuel is when you're on fire."

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"Don't get in the helicopter if its not leaking. If its not leaking it has nothing left to leak

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"Airspeed, altitude and brains. Two are always needed successfully to complete the flight."

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"Mankind has a perfect record in aviation; we never left one up there!"

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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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"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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"Never trade luck for skill."

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"The Piper Cub is the safest airplane in the world; it can just barely kill you."

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"There is no reason to fly through a thunderstorm in peacetime."

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"Tracers work both ways."

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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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"Without ammunition, the USAF would be just another expensive flying club."

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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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"You've never been lost until you've been lost at Mach 3."

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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...!"