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Armybrat

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  1. Amateur….
  2. Mama Ritas are pretty damn good house ‘ritas for $7 at Mama Betty’s..
  3. No such luck , but like a lot of the other Army troops present at those tests he did develop pre-cancerous skin problems late in life.
  4. She was pissed about the lost $20.
  5. Frenchman Flats, Nevada - June, 1957. My Dad, along with several hundred US Army troops, was somewhere underneath that cloud hunkered down in an 8’ deep trench only 1,000 yards from Ground Zero. Afterwards when they were bused back to their Las Vegas hotel, he lost $20 at a Blackjack table.
  6. Well, maybe they’re going back to learn how to read contracts?
  7. Hope you have a spare kidney.
  8. Hijo de la chingada
  9. Fake……that ain’t Roger Taylor on the drums.
  10. The second time there I left town on one of these….
  11. The first time I was in Oakland I got outta town on this ship….
  12. I took this pic in of Mansfield dam in 2016…three floodgates were open in that one. It was pretty loud from our vantage point.
  13. They are hand made by little old omas in Lolla, Germany.
  14. I am honestly shocked Maxwell hasn’t committed “suicide” yet or died from “natural causes”. But evidently she has a hidden time bomb as insurance.
  15. His username.
  16. Jimbo, the sitting national championship coach was a sure thing. He’s #1 in his profession - drawing $9,000,000/year for sitting….doing nothing.
  17. Mrs. Brat just made a one night reservation at the Holiday Inn Express in her hometown of Taylor, Texas so we could attend her high school reunion October 10th. $319 freakin’ Dollars for one night at a run of the mill joint in a small Texas town? I am flabbergasted!!
  18. Sounds like Oakland has gone downhill since Captain Jack Hays was the city’s first mayor.
  19. Bought this $80 Seiko for 1/2 off about 15 years ago. Keeps perfect time compared to my old Timexes. Am a cheap mofo.
  20. I’d love to have a plain blued one though.
  21. The RAF pilot’s story: RIP Alan Pollock, RAF Hawker Hunter pilot who in 1968 famously flew through Tower Bridge in protest at defence cuts. This ended up being his last flight as an RAF pilot and ended his Air Force career. It is now the stuff of Legend. Rest in peace Sir, we salute you. The first time I heard the Alan Pollock Hunter story was from a friend who was working as a RAF flight line mechanic at West Raynham on the day this happened 57 years ago. As the pilots landed they were arrested by RAF police who were initially unsure who the culprit was. The last pilot to land was Alan Pollock who arrived in style with an inverted low pass over the hangars. He also happened to have an AA street map of London in the cockpit. Well and truly busted out the RAF 'the Tower Bridge Incident' has gone down as a legendary piece of RAF history. Interesting fact not often mentioned about the incident, the 1 Squadron ground crew at Tangmere who dispatched the aircraft packed toilet roles behind the airbrake at Flt Lt Pollock’s request so he could drop them over Parliament! He buzzed the Houses of Parliament creating a mini-sonic boom just as MPs were debating the problem of aircraft Jet noise!
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