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Armybrat

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  1. That’s been going on since the 1960s.
  2. My air conditioner contractor recently bought this jet….
  3. We didn’t do any drills at our military post schools, nor in the Catholic parochial school. We just knew enough to kiss our young asses goodbye.
  4. I could be……it may have been in 1955. Details get a little sketchy after 70 years.
  5. There were hundreds of other Army troops in the trenches around the test area. Only two were injured - by shovels after the blast collapsed part of one trench and their rescuers were pretty enthusiastic while digging them out.
  6. My dad knew what nuclear bombs were like. In 1956 He was in an 8’ deep trench under this cloud about 1,000 yards from Ground Zero when the 27,000KT bomb went off.
  7. Armybrat

    SpaceX

    Son’s friend at South Padre Island took this pic yesterday…
  8. In the back of their tiny minds those goobers know Texas is going in all gas no lube on them next month.
  9. I thought he would let his limo drivers worry about that stuff.
  10. Got any pics of the ladies?
  11. Or my late grandson…
  12. I started going my freshman year, but stopped about 10 years ago.
  13. I thought Fatty Arbuckle was dead before I was born.
  14. Hits close to the nursing home.
  15. But I’ve never been to the Yellow Rose.
  16. I carry at least 3 or 4 in my wallet to add one on top of the usual 25-30% restaurant tips. The servers love them.
  17. Where are all the Norks deserting to?
  18. “Normal” boards? 😂
  19. My brother had 600 silver dollars he had accumulated over 20 years in a footlocker stored above his garage along with lots of other old junk. One of his sons and a neighbor kid liked to play up there and snoop in that stuff. Then one day brother decided to haul the coins down and put them in his new gun safe. Of course they were missing. (the garage door was left open quite a bit in those days 50 years ago, so anybody could sneak in) Then the neighborhood kids’ rumor mill indicated that his son’s “friend” had been spending silver dollars for candy at the nearby 7/11. Brother went over there to question the owner & his clerks, but of course they denied all knowledge of any such transactions.
  20. A bit of nostalgia - these are the type of school desks we used at St. Bernadette’s Parochial in St. Louis during the mid 1950s. We didn’t have to utilize the inkwell holes, as we were transitioning from using fountain pens to ball point pens. The desk top lifted up to access the bookshelf underneath. Each row in the classroom was made up of desks attached to runners like these in the photo.
  21. 1946 was a very good year for us….Dad was home from the War.
  22. The currency of the future…..
  23. In my post on page one I forgot to add these photos my dad took on Attu after that fight was over
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