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    The first time I saw one of these was way back when my buddy and I were going through his dads vietnam stuff. It always stuck in my head and when i got into the army in the mid 90s and saw all the monthly maintenance books it all made sense. I found a few of these new in original plastic wrapper at a gun show at Ft bragg and bought a few. I still have one for perusing and one NIW. I still spout one of the quotes off from it when something goes wrong for someone at the range, like a miss. "maybe you have bad round imperialist" These booklets are way cool! I always felt these and the ones they put out these days are pretty effective tools.

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    I found one still in plastic about 6 months ago during AWI's. Score!
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    Quote Originally Posted by skyugo View Post
    cool... interesting to note they insisted on generous lube on the moving parts even back then.
    Exactly. I've mentioned this a few times over the years when the subject of lube came up.

    Compare the lube points and quantities of then, to now. Nothing changed. The bad information about "less is better", came from those not in the know. We've all seen it happen.

    It's amazing what a person can learn, by taking the time to sit down and really read the manual...... most will not. And admit it...TM's, FM's and parts manuals are all boring and make for really dry reading material. This was the whole reason behind comic books like the DA PAM from 1968 which was basically the forerunner to PS Magazine.

    Put the information out in a format that GI's are more likely to read, and hopefully they will read it and retain what they read. Sadly, there are even those who can not seem to find the time to even read this form of information.
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    I have one of those. When I was a kid about 12 and living in Alabama at the time, there was an Army Recruiters office on the way home from school. I used to stop in there and they'd give me all kinds of "PM" books like that. I think they were giving them to me just to get rid of them. I can't believe I've kept it all these years.

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    LSA, is that the white stuff in that bottle?

    I actually have some of this stuff (but its dried out since) in an old M-16A1 cleaning kit that I have. I really like the old cleaning rod too.

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    Thanks for the memories....was just sitting here browsing thru my April 1977 TM 9-1005-249-10...

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    I used to date a woman who looked almost exactly like Connie, just a little shorter. She was not amused when I pointed out the resemblance. I took that as a major red flag, and I was right.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Cobra66 View Post
    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

    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.
    Women have traditionally been used as a teaching instrument to men. Current military and civillian aircraft flight systems and collision avoidance "voices" are that of a woman. Men are used to doing what they are told by their mothers, wives, girlfriends and daughters.

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    The man from lox

    The is an old training film from the Navy. This is great, tongue n' cheek, and not PC. I work at a Crygenic Oxygen Facility and this was part of our "unofficial training"

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9sIT6P_05I

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