MILITARY WISDOM



'If the enemy is in range, so are you...' - Infantry Journal
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'It is generally inadvisable to eject directly over the area you just
bombed.' - U.S. Air Force Manual
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'Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered
automatic weapons.' - General MacArthur
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'You, you, and you .... Panic. The rest of you, come with me.' - U.S.
Marine Corps Gunnery Sgt.
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'Tracers work both ways.' - U.S. Army Ordnance
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'Five second fuses only last three seconds.' - Infantry Journal
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'Any ship can be a minesweeper. Once.'
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'Never tell the Platoon Sergeant you have nothing to do.' - Unknown Marine
Recruit
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'If you see a bomb technician running, try to keep up with him.' - USAF Ammo
Troop
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'Though I Fly Through the Valley of Death , I Shall Fear No Evil. For I am
at 80,000 Feet and Climbing.'
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'You've never been lost until you've been lost at Mach 3.'

- Paul F. Crickmore (test pilot)
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'The only time you have too much fuel is when you're on fire.'
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'If the wings are traveling faster than the fuselage, it's probably a
helicopter -- and therefore, unsafe.'
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'When one engine fails on a twin-engine airplane you always have enough
power left to get you to the scene of the crash.'
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'Even with ammunition, the USAF is just another expensive flying club..'
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'What is the similarity between air traffic controllers and pilots? If a
pilot screws up, the pilot dies; If ATC screws up ... The pilot dies.'
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'Never trade luck for skill.'
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The three most common expressions (famous last words), in aviation are:
'Why is it doing that?'
'Where are we?'
And
'Oh S...!'
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'Airspeed, altitude and brains. Two are always needed to successfully
complete the flight.'
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'Mankind has a perfect record in aviation; we've never left one up there!'
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'Flying the airplane is more important than radioing your plight to a person
on the ground incapable of understanding or doing anything about it.'
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'The Piper Cub is the safest airplane in the world; it can just barely kill
you.' - Max Stanley (Northrop test pilot)
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'There is no reason to fly through a thunderstorm in peacetime.' Sign over
squadron ops desk at Davis-Monthan AFB, AZ, 1970
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'If something hasn't broken on your helicopter, it's about to.'
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'You know that your landing gear is up and locked when it takes full power
to taxi to the terminal.'
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As the test pilot climbs out of the experimental aircraft, having torn off
the wings and tail in the crash landing, the crash truck arrives; the
rescuer sees a bloodied pilot and asks,
'What happened?'
The pilot's reply: 'I don't know, I just got here myself!'
- Attributed to Ray Crandell (Lockheed test pilot)