Invaluable advice.

steveh1510 · Mar 3, 2004

Instructions apparently given to the US military.

"Aim towards the enemy." - Instruction printed on US Rocket Launcher.

"When the pin is pulled, Mr Grenade is not our friend." - US Marine
Corps.

"Cluster bombing from B-52s is very, very accurate. The bombs are
guaranteed to always hit the ground." - USAF Ammo Troop.

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

"A slipping gear could let your M203 grenade launcher fire when you
least expect it. That would make you quite unpopular in what is left of
your unit." - Army's magazine of preventive maintenance.

"It is generally inadvisable to eject directly over the area you just
bombed." - U.S. Air Force Manual.

"Try to look unimportant; they may be low on ammo." - Infantry Journal.

"Tracers work both ways." - US Army Ordnance.

"Five-second fuses only last three seconds." - Infantry Journal.

"Any ship can be a minesweeper... once." - Anon.

"Do not draw fire; it irritates the people around you." - Your comrades.

Guest · Mar 3, 2004

Silly (possible urban myth)from the Korean war.

Claymore mines were introduced , and one side said point towards enmey (on the side the the blast immited from (should point out this are essential metal lunch boxies with C4 and a 1000 ball barrings inside !)) .

Now these as you may have guessed were a US invention. So nice and simple for your averagre GI. Alas also for the english reading enemy , who would sneak up and switch the mines the other way (at first these mines were staked out on the perimitere of your base on a v short stick and detenated remotely to catch the one coming hordes !)

SO as legend has it the UK forces would switch the panels on the mines (or even take them off all together ) and place the boxies facing the wrong way , so when the clever chappies came to swap them , they infact put them the right way !