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AUinHsv

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  1. Nice and timeless watch. Can't go wrong with that era of Rolex sport models. I'm sure you know but don't screw with the tritium dial - part of the value is originality. If I ever get rid of my Sub from the same time period the GMT is on the list. The only thing I would change is a jubillee bracelet but that is one fine watch
  2. No.. His Dad is Tracy Rocker who won Lombardi and Outland trophy as lineman at Auburn in 80's. His dad was as good a DT as I ever saw. Unfortunately he had bad knees so only played a few years in NFL. He is now coaching for Tennessee Titans
  3. One or two thoughts. First is that if you were lucky enough to be landing at Utah then your chances were very good. Think only about 200 died there. They also landed in the wrong place but it turned out to be a very good place to be - few enemy soldiers. General Roosevelt (Teddy's son IIRC) was pretty clear - we will start the war from here and they did. Also the scateering of the paratroopers was helpful since the Germans could not figure out how many there were an spent a lot of time chasing very small groups. Finally - the output of America was absolutely on display here - the largest invasion ever followed up by a very similar invasion two weeks later on the other side of the world at Saipan. We had the resources to support two huge invasions back to back. Yamamoto was right to fear the American industrial capacity. It simply overwhelmed enemies on both sides of the world.
  4. need the green Mustang to be following the black Charger
  5. well I see your title and raise it Force Ten From Navarone. Kinda of a dud even though it had Harrison Ford and Robert Shaw in it.
  6. I just gave up on moving old folders over. If you export email from wlm and have a pop account you don't get folders. If you import them you get the messages twice. Spent an hour or so and just recreated folders and moved stuff to them.
  7. Battleground is very good. Kinda like an early Band of Brothers at Bastogne. Also I remember reading somewhere that they used actual artillery recordings of German shelling to make it sound right.
  8. Might want to check that one again. Don't think he has died yet
  9. and separate from all the poor content - they and every other channel feels the need to toss a minimum of 15 minutes of commercials per hour. Screw that. A long time ago the FCC actually had a mandatory limit of something like 10 minutes per hour. Not anymore. Tough to watch anything (looking at you Discovery network) these days
  10. Gotta love companies that did that. Since you mentioned it I remember several cars growing up that had that "feature".
  11. I think I have posted this before but the term "suicide mission" is not overused here. They took off knowing they probably did not have enough fuel to make it to China because they had to take off 200 miles farther out than expected. Luckily they got a huge tailwind so most of them got there. Takes a lot of courage to do that take off pretty much knowing you will land somewhere in an ocean in enemy territory.
  12. faked out by a coffee cup
  13. New sports models from an AD are VERY hard to find. At least that is all I read on some of the Rolex forums. Unfortunately I am not much help on newer Rolex sports models. I just don't like them for a variety of reasons. I am very old school with my tritium Sub from early 90's. I am not a fan of ceramic bezel inserts - if you smack then it's hundreds for a new one vs the metal one on mine. Plus I am not over endowed with a huge wrist and the newer cases are bigger. Finally I really only like a GMT on a jubilee bracelet. Like I said - old school
  14. And nothing is working the way the how-to's say. I don't think my personal email is that complicated but it sure isn't working. Opened both WLM and Outlook (had to create an acocunt to do this - called it AUinHSV). Exported email from WLM. I had two email account (called it A and B) Shows up fine except I know have three inboxes - AUinHSV and 1 and 2. Erased and tried again - created two accounts in Outlook - A and B. Export created two more A and B under them. At this point I am ready to forget migration and just create two new accounts. I used POP so it will download a few hundred emails and I can recreate the WLM folders. Am I missing something here? In WLM I can have two independent accounts - it seems like Outlook has an umbrella account with these under it but even then it wants to download all the emails to the parent account
  15. Can'r write TLDR on the article because I spent five minutes and got 1/4 way so TLQR - quit reading
  16. and his wife was probably very happy when Nike started making waffle shoes instead of Bill doing it in the backyard with her waffle iron
  17. Really liked as Coach Bowerman in Pre. Proved he could act in roles other than military.
  18. may not be a popular opinion but I really can't like a watch with either the winding stem or the date at some obscure angle. I guess I'm old school and want them at 3:00.
  19. Donovan also was in HOF and a fantastic speaker. Google Donovan and the Tonight Show and see how many good stories he had.
  20. Fired up for the day after that. You don't know me because we didn't punt very much....
  21. Just be glad you did not have to use the actual modem commands to establish the connection. ATDT - Attention There - Dial Tone And a few other obscure modem commands just to get the connection. And then ftp and other fun commands to get stuff. All of this was before Mosaic so way before Netscape - like 1992, And yep I guess I'm old...
  22. Posted in another thread but the ending of Manhunter with Ina Gada DaVida - that song made it work Pearl Harbor - of all movies but the scene where they are taking off for bombing Japan. can imagine it was possibly just that chaotic to laucnh hundreds of miles farther out. As a side not the word suicide mission is overused but not for Doolittle Raid - they took off knowing they didn't have enough fuel to make it and also not even knowing if their landing fields had been built. Luckily a tailwind got most of them to China
  23. Have some rep for that cheer team post. You could make a case that this website wouldn't exist without it
  24. Not going to defend 2.88 in that major but I will say it MIGHT be on 3.00 scale and not 4.00. I know my graduate school average was on 3.0.
  25. First I would not get a Nato. Just a lot of extra strap that the kid has to mess with. I keep my Submariner on a cheap military grade strap that goes under both spring pins just like a Nato but also has a traditional buckle. Here is a link and thta website has other straps. However I don't know if they are still in business but you can see other straps https://westcoastime.com/military-field.html Another link with lots of straps - I have the Maratec Mil strap for my Sub. No idea of how good/bad the website is - found it with a search https://countycomm.com/collections/watch-bands/products/maratac-mil-series-bands As far as spring pins - have other Maratecs on a Seiko dive watch and stuff like that. No issues. The beauty of the under Nato or the mil strap is you can loose a spring pin and not the watch. Rolex claims their pins are better but who knows. Your main issue may be removing the old band or strap. I have a "classic" Sub so I have holes on the lugs for pushing the pins out. A lot of newer watches have "no holes" so you need a tool to get the pins out to take the old strap off. Looking at a picture of the Gizmo - no holes but I kinda think it may look good with a Maratec. The one issue that does occur to me is that the kid's wrist is small so you may have to trim any type of strap to get the holes to fit
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