Post by South on Aug 22, 2011 3:03:30 GMT -5
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Good morning all,
The above links to an article that mentions the Aero Vodochody L-29 fighter used by the Warsaw Pact. There is a partial picture of one although painted up for US air shows and not combat.
A quick short story about my learning process. Some (most?!) of my learning was from the negative to enlightenment. Everything I've done or said over the years was not brilliant.
This article focuses on the Univ of Iowa. During the 1960s....don't know about more current times, it was heavy into football and was a member of the "Big 10" (Purdue, Michigan State,...). This was a grouping like the elite "Ivy League" (Harvard, Dartmouth etc).
Sharp dressing was "in" for football games, parties, and associated learning experiences.
......
On my first job at Hong Kong in the early 1970s, I was walking somewhere w/ a business associate. I saw 2 British soldiers walking in the opposite direction.
They wore the Brit style beret with the pom-pom on top, the "commando" pull-over wool sweater made famous in the David Nivin movie "Guns of Navaronne" (spelling?). Their boots were highly polished.
Yet, later I said to my business colleague that the civilian pants they were wearing would get me an "Article 15" - at best -, if I ever mixed civilian clothes with my Army uniform.
My colleague, a French guy who had been in Hong Kong a few years, replied:
"They were in uniform".
The pants were black watch plaid, their unit !
Thus, live and learn.
Warm regards,
Bob
Good morning all,
The above links to an article that mentions the Aero Vodochody L-29 fighter used by the Warsaw Pact. There is a partial picture of one although painted up for US air shows and not combat.
A quick short story about my learning process. Some (most?!) of my learning was from the negative to enlightenment. Everything I've done or said over the years was not brilliant.
This article focuses on the Univ of Iowa. During the 1960s....don't know about more current times, it was heavy into football and was a member of the "Big 10" (Purdue, Michigan State,...). This was a grouping like the elite "Ivy League" (Harvard, Dartmouth etc).
Sharp dressing was "in" for football games, parties, and associated learning experiences.
......
On my first job at Hong Kong in the early 1970s, I was walking somewhere w/ a business associate. I saw 2 British soldiers walking in the opposite direction.
They wore the Brit style beret with the pom-pom on top, the "commando" pull-over wool sweater made famous in the David Nivin movie "Guns of Navaronne" (spelling?). Their boots were highly polished.
Yet, later I said to my business colleague that the civilian pants they were wearing would get me an "Article 15" - at best -, if I ever mixed civilian clothes with my Army uniform.
My colleague, a French guy who had been in Hong Kong a few years, replied:
"They were in uniform".
The pants were black watch plaid, their unit !
Thus, live and learn.
Warm regards,
Bob