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wrote: On Fri, 3 Aug 2018 19:31:27 -0000 (UTC), Bill wrote: Keyser Soze wrote: I forgot...what did you do in Vietnam during that war? I stayed in the states assigned to a military airlift wing. MAW. And fixed airborne radar units from the transports most of the time. Also was the ILS trained guy, but never had to work on the ground based Instrument Landing System. Unlike you, going to Vietnam as a high paid contractor. High paid contractor? I never heard that story. I did try to get IBM to send me there for a while and the pay was good but they wouldn't do it. That was probably a good thing because I would have been there for Tet. I did room with a guy in Chicago who did go through Tet in an IBM unit in Danang and he said it was ugly. I figured Bilious was high again and just ignored that comment. Why do you assume I am a drunk or druggie like you and Donnie? You must have been a high paid consultant with your education to go search for missing bodies. |
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On Sat, 4 Aug 2018 04:21:24 -0000 (UTC), Bill
wrote: wrote: On Fri, 3 Aug 2018 19:31:27 -0000 (UTC), Bill wrote: Keyser Soze wrote: I forgot...what did you do in Vietnam during that war? I stayed in the states assigned to a military airlift wing. MAW. And fixed airborne radar units from the transports most of the time. Also was the ILS trained guy, but never had to work on the ground based Instrument Landing System. Unlike you, going to Vietnam as a high paid contractor. High paid contractor? I never heard that story. I did try to get IBM to send me there for a while and the pay was good but they wouldn't do it. That was probably a good thing because I would have been there for Tet. I did room with a guy in Chicago who did go through Tet in an IBM unit in Danang and he said it was ugly. NCR was looking for an in country rep. My co-worker took the position. They had NCR 500 computers at each fire base for inventory control. They did not offer enough money, offered a 50% pay increase and $300 a month expense money. Don said they had to raise the expense money as the rent was higher. He probably knew the IBM rep, as it seemed all the reps rented half a retired VN generals villa. He was there for TET, and the Saigon attack was on the villa side. The generals wife was happy as they never lost power at the villa as they installed one of the spare generator for the NCR systems as backup. IBM gave you 66% and the assignment was 18 months so you didn't pay taxes. Expenses were actual and reasonable but they were pretty easy going on it. He could also eat at the GI mess hall by paying ComRats. He said he ended up pretty much banking all of the salary. He ended up with enough to buy a house when he got back. |
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On Fri, 03 Aug 2018 14:03:00 -0400, wrote:
On Fri, 03 Aug 2018 05:49:39 -0400, John H. wrote: On Thu, 02 Aug 2018 23:08:32 -0400, wrote: On Fri, 3 Aug 2018 01:18:40 -0000 (UTC), Bill wrote: Wayne.B wrote: On Thu, 2 Aug 2018 18:39:12 -0000 (UTC), Bill wrote: wrote: On Thu, 02 Aug 2018 13:09:03 -0400, Wayne.B wrote: On Thu, 02 Aug 2018 12:41:06 -0400, wrote: On Thu, 2 Aug 2018 05:04:53 -0400, "Mr. Luddite" wrote: On 8/1/2018 9:50 PM, wrote: On Wed, 01 Aug 2018 20:46:44 -0400, John H. wrote: On Wed, 01 Aug 2018 13:50:39 -0400, wrote: On Wed, 01 Aug 2018 09:59:06 -0400, John H. wrote: On Wed, 1 Aug 2018 03:58:05 -0700 (PDT), Tim wrote: John H On Tue, 31 Jul 2018 22:04:39 -0400, Wayne.B wrote: - show quoted text - If it won't pass the magnet test, it can't be fired at my local range (indoors). ......... I still can?t figure out that ruling. Sparks. Sparks? Really? In a place with massive muzzle blasts. Yes. Really. No reason to **** you. What are the sparks going to do that a dragons breath of flame 6 feet long won't do? As previously mentioned, a spark (as a source of ignition) can be much hotter than a flame. It is still unclear what is going to catch on fire. === Like you said, probably nothing, but some range folks have seized on that as a secondary reason. The potential for backstop damage and ricochet risk are no doubt first and foremost. Also, they can probably get more for their recycled lead as an additional economic reason. I don't even think recycling the lead has anything to do with it because when they smelt the lead, the steel and copper will float up to the top to be skimmed off. My bullet making buddy did this all the time when he was making bullets from scrap lead. As I said earlier, the design of the trap mitigates ricochets. They all ricochet into the belly of the trap. I still say, it is just to protect his investment in the trap. I know I chipped the 1/2" steel plates in mine when I was shooting something too "hot" and that was just copper over lead. I am sure the BiMetal is a bit harder than that. I do wonder how much sparking you really get tho because that metal is not really that hard. You can bugger it up quite a bit just grabbing it with pliers to pull the bullet out. I usually think of sparks with flint and hardened steel, like as hard as a file. Russian 9MM BiMetal bullet http://gfretwell.com/ftp/Tula%209mm%20bullet.jpg When I got shot in the service was a ricochet from a 38 off the target frame. Outdoor police range in Novato near the base. Base had a rifle range. === Did you get a Purple Heart or is that just for combat? A friend of mine got a Purple Heart for what he claims was an accidental discharge. I think is only a combat injury. Or combat owie according to Mr. Heinz. There were stories about guys in Vietnam getting a purple heart for a C ration can cut. Then someone bull****ted the doc. I'm shocked, shocked I tell you. There was bull****ting going on in Vietnam? The whole damned debacle was bull****. It is a criminal shame that the ones who were bull****ted the most were the ones on the ground dying so LBJ could save face in a war he knew he had lost by 1966. This was what made me stop trusting the government. I was still on board up into the 70s, until I found out how much they bull****ted me. Now I don't trust a thing they say. (D or R) Greg, Greg -- we're just talking about the requirements for receiving a Purple Heart. Easy. |
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On Fri, 03 Aug 2018 14:13:58 -0400, wrote:
On Fri, 03 Aug 2018 05:52:15 -0400, John H. wrote: On Thu, 02 Aug 2018 23:01:14 -0400, wrote: On Thu, 2 Aug 2018 19:42:38 -0400, Alex wrote: John H. wrote: On Wed, 01 Aug 2018 13:43:51 -0400, wrote: On Wed, 01 Aug 2018 06:11:11 -0400, John H. wrote: On Tue, 31 Jul 2018 22:04:39 -0400, Wayne.B wrote: On Tue, 31 Jul 2018 21:45:10 -0400, wrote: https://tinyurl.com/ydgtok3a Lake city is mil spec stuff. === How is it possible that a brass case will attract a magnet? Is it brass plated steel? Somethings fishy. If it won't pass the magnet test, it can't be fired at my local range (indoors). I doubt you are shooting a .308 indoors anyway. It's the largest allowed at the range. They allow .30-06 according to their website. Same basic round. That's the point. They allow me to blast away with the 7.62X54R from the Mosin Nagant. When it's there, it's the loudest thing in there! Most of the "full sized" military 30cal/7.62s or even the German 8mm are pretty similar in performance. I am just wondering how hard it is to find russian ammo that is not steel. My neighbor showed me a 50 cal can, stuffed with rusty ammo and wasn't sure what it was for. I recognized it right away and thought of you. Once I told him, he remembered he had an old Nagant around somewhere but he wasn't sure where. (At the house here, maybe in his other house in Frostproof or at the hunting cabin). I never heard if he found it. What I use. I've not found any of the cheap Russian stuff that will pass the magnet test. http://tinyurl.com/yda8pz7q |
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On Fri, 3 Aug 2018 14:30:09 -0400, Keyser Soze wrote:
On 8/3/18 1:53 PM, Bill wrote: wrote: On Fri, 3 Aug 2018 01:18:40 -0000 (UTC), Bill wrote: Wayne.B wrote: On Thu, 2 Aug 2018 18:39:12 -0000 (UTC), Bill wrote: wrote: On Thu, 02 Aug 2018 13:09:03 -0400, Wayne.B wrote: On Thu, 02 Aug 2018 12:41:06 -0400, wrote: On Thu, 2 Aug 2018 05:04:53 -0400, "Mr. Luddite" wrote: On 8/1/2018 9:50 PM, wrote: On Wed, 01 Aug 2018 20:46:44 -0400, John H. wrote: On Wed, 01 Aug 2018 13:50:39 -0400, wrote: On Wed, 01 Aug 2018 09:59:06 -0400, John H. wrote: On Wed, 1 Aug 2018 03:58:05 -0700 (PDT), Tim wrote: John H On Tue, 31 Jul 2018 22:04:39 -0400, Wayne.B wrote: - show quoted text - If it won't pass the magnet test, it can't be fired at my local range (indoors). ......... I still can?t figure out that ruling. Sparks. Sparks? Really? In a place with massive muzzle blasts. Yes. Really. No reason to **** you. What are the sparks going to do that a dragons breath of flame 6 feet long won't do? As previously mentioned, a spark (as a source of ignition) can be much hotter than a flame. It is still unclear what is going to catch on fire. === Like you said, probably nothing, but some range folks have seized on that as a secondary reason. The potential for backstop damage and ricochet risk are no doubt first and foremost. Also, they can probably get more for their recycled lead as an additional economic reason. I don't even think recycling the lead has anything to do with it because when they smelt the lead, the steel and copper will float up to the top to be skimmed off. My bullet making buddy did this all the time when he was making bullets from scrap lead. As I said earlier, the design of the trap mitigates ricochets. They all ricochet into the belly of the trap. I still say, it is just to protect his investment in the trap. I know I chipped the 1/2" steel plates in mine when I was shooting something too "hot" and that was just copper over lead. I am sure the BiMetal is a bit harder than that. I do wonder how much sparking you really get tho because that metal is not really that hard. You can bugger it up quite a bit just grabbing it with pliers to pull the bullet out. I usually think of sparks with flint and hardened steel, like as hard as a file. Russian 9MM BiMetal bullet http://gfretwell.com/ftp/Tula%209mm%20bullet.jpg When I got shot in the service was a ricochet from a 38 off the target frame. Outdoor police range in Novato near the base. Base had a rifle range. === Did you get a Purple Heart or is that just for combat? A friend of mine got a Purple Heart for what he claims was an accidental discharge. I think is only a combat injury. Or combat owie according to Mr. Heinz. There were stories about guys in Vietnam getting a purple heart for a C ration can cut. Mr. Kerry? I forgot...what did you do in Vietnam during that war? |
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On Fri, 3 Aug 2018 14:30:09 -0400, Keyser Soze wrote:
On 8/3/18 1:53 PM, Bill wrote: wrote: On Fri, 3 Aug 2018 01:18:40 -0000 (UTC), Bill wrote: Wayne.B wrote: On Thu, 2 Aug 2018 18:39:12 -0000 (UTC), Bill wrote: wrote: On Thu, 02 Aug 2018 13:09:03 -0400, Wayne.B wrote: On Thu, 02 Aug 2018 12:41:06 -0400, wrote: On Thu, 2 Aug 2018 05:04:53 -0400, "Mr. Luddite" wrote: On 8/1/2018 9:50 PM, wrote: On Wed, 01 Aug 2018 20:46:44 -0400, John H. wrote: On Wed, 01 Aug 2018 13:50:39 -0400, wrote: On Wed, 01 Aug 2018 09:59:06 -0400, John H. wrote: On Wed, 1 Aug 2018 03:58:05 -0700 (PDT), Tim wrote: John H On Tue, 31 Jul 2018 22:04:39 -0400, Wayne.B wrote: - show quoted text - If it won't pass the magnet test, it can't be fired at my local range (indoors). ......... I still can?t figure out that ruling. Sparks. Sparks? Really? In a place with massive muzzle blasts. Yes. Really. No reason to **** you. What are the sparks going to do that a dragons breath of flame 6 feet long won't do? As previously mentioned, a spark (as a source of ignition) can be much hotter than a flame. It is still unclear what is going to catch on fire. === Like you said, probably nothing, but some range folks have seized on that as a secondary reason. The potential for backstop damage and ricochet risk are no doubt first and foremost. Also, they can probably get more for their recycled lead as an additional economic reason. I don't even think recycling the lead has anything to do with it because when they smelt the lead, the steel and copper will float up to the top to be skimmed off. My bullet making buddy did this all the time when he was making bullets from scrap lead. As I said earlier, the design of the trap mitigates ricochets. They all ricochet into the belly of the trap. I still say, it is just to protect his investment in the trap. I know I chipped the 1/2" steel plates in mine when I was shooting something too "hot" and that was just copper over lead. I am sure the BiMetal is a bit harder than that. I do wonder how much sparking you really get tho because that metal is not really that hard. You can bugger it up quite a bit just grabbing it with pliers to pull the bullet out. I usually think of sparks with flint and hardened steel, like as hard as a file. Russian 9MM BiMetal bullet http://gfretwell.com/ftp/Tula%209mm%20bullet.jpg When I got shot in the service was a ricochet from a 38 off the target frame. Outdoor police range in Novato near the base. Base had a rifle range. === Did you get a Purple Heart or is that just for combat? A friend of mine got a Purple Heart for what he claims was an accidental discharge. I think is only a combat injury. Or combat owie according to Mr. Heinz. There were stories about guys in Vietnam getting a purple heart for a C ration can cut. Mr. Kerry? I forgot...what did you do in Vietnam during that war? It's for damn sure he did as much in Vietnam as you did! Liar. |
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On 3 Aug 2018 20:49:57 GMT, Keyser Soze wrote:
wrote: On Fri, 3 Aug 2018 19:31:27 -0000 (UTC), Bill wrote: Keyser Soze wrote: I forgot...what did you do in Vietnam during that war? I stayed in the states assigned to a military airlift wing. MAW. And fixed airborne radar units from the transports most of the time. Also was the ILS trained guy, but never had to work on the ground based Instrument Landing System. Unlike you, going to Vietnam as a high paid contractor. High paid contractor? I never heard that story. I did try to get IBM to send me there for a while and the pay was good but they wouldn't do it. That was probably a good thing because I would have been there for Tet. I did room with a guy in Chicago who did go through Tet in an IBM unit in Danang and he said it was ugly. I figured Bilious was high again and just ignored that comment. As you've ignored any questions about your quite dubious claim of having served in Vietnam. |
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On 8/4/18 12:21 AM, Bill wrote:
Keyser Soze wrote: wrote: On Fri, 3 Aug 2018 19:31:27 -0000 (UTC), Bill wrote: Keyser Soze wrote: I forgot...what did you do in Vietnam during that war? I stayed in the states assigned to a military airlift wing. MAW. And fixed airborne radar units from the transports most of the time. Also was the ILS trained guy, but never had to work on the ground based Instrument Landing System. Unlike you, going to Vietnam as a high paid contractor. High paid contractor? I never heard that story. I did try to get IBM to send me there for a while and the pay was good but they wouldn't do it. That was probably a good thing because I would have been there for Tet. I did room with a guy in Chicago who did go through Tet in an IBM unit in Danang and he said it was ugly. I figured Bilious was high again and just ignored that comment. Why do you assume I am a drunk or druggie like you and Donnie? You must have been a high paid consultant with your education to go search for missing bodies. Why? Because of the semi-literate right-wing nonsense you post. I figure no one could be as ****ed in the head as you seem to be if they were sober. Oh, I don't drink seriously or do drugs. I've had one of my three beers for the year. |
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