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You Really Can’t Make This Stuff Up…
(click on picture to enlarge it) So Pops — *this* was the slide you told us to post? #1 doesn’t think so but he doesn’t know jack anyway. Do you really do this….stuff…at work? Now we know what they mean about not trusting anyone over 30. -Steeljaw Apprentice #3
Vipers…In a Viper (F-16)?
From strategypage.com comes this story of life imitating art: Snakes on a Plane Bring F-16 Down Apparently, a poisonous insect or snake in the cockpit brought down a Dutch F-16 in Afghanistan last August. After a 11 month investigation, that ended up as the only plausible explanation for the loss. The dead pilot did not…
Heads-up WordPress/Bad Behavior Users
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