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On Sun, 07 Sep 2003 13:47:00 GMT,
Larry W4CSC wrote:
On Sat, 6 Sep 2003 23:40:51 -0700, Jim Richardson
wrote:

On Sat, 06 Sep 2003 15:27:33 GMT,
Larry W4CSC wrote:

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"No, Sir, that's not a GM 6-53 diesel engine. That's a GM 6-71 diesel
engine, Sir."..........."Thank you, Sir."......


I had a LtCol ask if we could get a spare 6-71 for the maint hut genset,
I showed up with a 1ton tug, when he asked what it was, I told him it
was the container the 6-71 came in... He glared at me, but we kept the
6-71.


I always found it best NOT to tell the officers too much. It was our
"Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy...(c;

Remember all those nameplates you turned in on "surveyed" (scrapped)
equipment to get them out of the paper trail? NAVELEX sent a
contractor around to verify field changes, a job I later did for a few
years with Amex Systems. Good thing he was an old ETC we could talk
to. We schmoozed him into not telling on us.

Well, if your ship needs anything smaller than a 5"-38 gunmount, come
see me. I probably know where it's stored..........Bring coffee in
25# cans.



Once traded a locker full of F106 nosegear hydraulic parts to the Cal
ANG for more beer and liquor that the whole ECM shop could dring in a
*Very* long weekend. The locker had been sitting in the hanger, locked,
for so long, that no-one knew what was in it. Left overs from when the
base flew F106's, *20* years before.

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Jim Richardson http://www.eskimo.com/~warlock

Linux, because eventually, you grow up enough to be trusted with a fork()

Hmmmm... I'm guessing we won't be having the big crab dinner at Trawlerfest,
Solomons MD in a couple of weeks then...

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Keith
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x-no-archive:yes "Keith" wrote:

$200 a bushel for non-bay crabs? Heck, maybe I should ship ya'll some of
our
Texas blue crabs... A couple of chicken necks and some nets and I'll have
'ya a bushel in no time. If you like hunting more than fishing, just walk
down the piers and if you walk real quiet, you can scoop them off the
floats.

When we moved to Louisiana (in 1960) we found blue crabs were
incredibly cheap there compared to the Chesapeake. Of course we had
to get my MIL to ship us some Old Bay - all they had there on the Gulf
was Crab Boil or Shrimp Boil. Yuk.

There is a blue crab drought in the Chesapeake this year - it isn't
always like this. We are paying about $30 a dozen for cooked hard
crabs here close to the source, and it's much more up in Baltimore.

grandma Rosalie

Oh, you can have it. Just be prepared to pay and don't expect the crabs
to be Bay native.

Joe Wood

Keith wrote:
Hmmmm... I'm guessing we won't be having the big crab dinner at Trawlerfest,
Solomons MD in a couple of weeks then...

On Sun, 7 Sep 2003 20:41:32 -0700, Jim Richardson
wrote:

Once traded a locker full of F106 nosegear hydraulic parts to the Cal
ANG for more beer and liquor that the whole ECM shop could dring in a
*Very* long weekend. The locker had been sitting in the hanger, locked,
for so long, that no-one knew what was in it. Left overs from when the
base flew F106's, *20* years before.

I used to be the Electronics Department Head of Sumter Area Technical
College in Sumter, SC, home of Shaw AFB. In the yard of the school we
had a couple of Shaw's old recon aircraft on nice display stands from
the air base. They really dressed up the place and showed our
partnership with SAFB.

About twice a month, give or take a week, a dark blue USAF stepvan
from this shop or that shop would show up at the display. Men in
working uniform would get out and put ladders up to the hatches on the
planes and went inside. They'd come out with equipment, wiring
harnesses, instruments, and other important looking pieces-parts....I
suppose to keep online Air Force planes up and running....

Kinda scary for those of us living across the street from the air base
runway.....(c;

Before the school needed the property to build more bureaucracy and
gave the planes back, they were mostly stripped out inside.....


Larry

Extremely intelligent life must exist in the universe.
You can tell because they never tried to contact us.