Check this out. Its worth your time.
http://dig.library.vcu.edu/cdm4/docu...PTR=5857&REC=7
Entertaining and educational.
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Check this out. Its worth your time.
http://dig.library.vcu.edu/cdm4/docu...PTR=5857&REC=7
Entertaining and educational.
Badass...thanks for the link:)
eta...I would absolutely love to own an actual org. color copy of this pamphlet....the animations are dynamite!
As would I. If you ever come across any...
If I'm not mistaken it was recently reprinted in PS magazine. I'll check and see.
I ordered some several months ago:
http://www.midwayusa.com/viewproduct...tnumber=310436
Worth every penny of just over $3.00
Nice, it's expensive....but quality always is:D
That is straight Man Cave material...throw that on a table and consider my interior decorating done:cool:
Awesome find, and at Midway no less. Im surprised I havent seen it.
Dang... creases on their trousers while In The Shit...
http://dig.library.vcu.edu/cgi-bin/s...m&CISOPTR=5856
Olde Skool
Those are pickel suits, not Jungle Fatigues. The creases were perma and the pockets give it away.
Never thought my alma mater would have that in the collection.
Moving this to "Vintage AR's".
Some of you may be way too young to get some of the little "in-jokes" they splashed around in that pamphlet.
For example, on one page a character suggests you "try TM", referring to the technical manual.
This is a joke on the 1960's Transcendental Meditation craze among hippie types, often referred to as "TM".
I'm old school enough to remember some of that shit. :D
Good stuff. Thanks for posting this.
I saved some scans of this a while back. Pretty cool stuff.
Great info for every NEWB to read! :D
Don't take all of it as Gospel, though.
Some of the info is outdated, as I learned when I started reading some of the threads on this site.
How'z 'bout the stacked hottie doing the narration?
http://i486.photobucket.com/albums/r...nk/Capture.jpg
That's Connie Rod. She was one of the regular cast of PS Monthly. A clever trick to get GI's to read it was to illustrate a good looking woman. She did tone down the innuendo in later years though.
I did once have a 1SG that bore an uncanny resemblance to MSG Half-Mast though.
The manual for German Tiger tank crews was more risque.:jester:
The Tigerfibel
http://www.alanhamby.com/tigerfibel.shtml
http://www.alanhamby.com/Tigerfibel/06.jpg
We all know what CLP is. What was LSA?
LSA was originally designed for the M61 Vulcan. Standard lubricants would get thrown off of the mechanism when it was spun up to 6,000rpm. Given that an aircrew is hard pressed to add additional lubricant to their M61 while in flight, they decided that a thicker, more tenacious lubricant was required. It is referenced as a semi-fluid lubricant.
They were not permanent unless they were sewn in. You "broke starch" back then. My first Army issued Permanent Press Fatigues were in 1977 or 1978 while I was stationed at Fort Benning
When I went in the Army, a few years after that DA Pamphlet came out, they were still using it or one very similar. Brings back old memories.
you gotta love this old retro stuff.
This is a great find too!
Elvira and Connie are both women with curves.
COMPLETELY OFF TOPIC - when did women built like 14 year old boys become popular :confused:
The PM manuals still featured nice looking gals as late as the mid 2000s when I got out (haven't seen one since), but are certainly a lot toned down from what they were in the 1960s.
the comic reminds me of the SGT Rock Comics I read as a Kid and the Sherman Tank comic I can't remember the Name of that one
Wasn't that GI Combat?
No wait, that was the one where they drove a Stuart tank and the guy kept seeing the ghost of General Jeb Stuart from the Civil War. Later the Stuart tank got destroyed and they had some kind of cobbled together tank made up from different tanks IIRC. Man I loved that comic.
The Haunted Tank.
yelp that is the One Man I miss those Comics
I always thought it was "Lubricant, Semi-liquid, Automatic weapons".
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Anyway-- it was not bad stuff.
Brings back memories. We did that with BDUs until the early 90s, when it was deemed starch was diminishing the protective anti-IR properties and wearing the uniforms out too fast due to fading, causing a financial burden on the troops. That's where "wet press" was accepted by the Army and adopted by local cleaners.
Agreed. I have 2 quarts of it I found in a flea market a few years ago, in my garage. It works very well.
Are the printed copies still available?
cool... interesting to note they insisted on generous lube on the moving parts even back then.
I remember being a kid and sitting in my Dad's office, back when he was a Captain in charge of K Troop @ Ft. Bliss. He would hand me a stack, of what I thought were comic books, turns out they were training manuals...I remember one that addressed Kimchi (no joke Kimchi). We had no such manuals when I was in the Corps (Happy Birthday Brothers), but they are still written so that the least skilled readers can understand. I say go back to comics if we are going to dumb them down anyway....least they were entertaining :D
I wonder how much an original copy in excellent condition is worth?
Ive got a couple,and they aint for sale, just curious.