To: Beckwith
what was the fifty bucks for? This is how the Chinese got started training for flight ops on their imaginary carrier.
3 posted on
05/27/2005 1:52:52 PM PDT by
cherokee1
(skip the names---just kick the buttz)
To: cherokee1
what was the fifty bucks for? A full tank of gas and a match.
8 posted on
05/27/2005 1:55:51 PM PDT by
Slings and Arrows
("Robert Byrd:He may have 'gone under the water,' but the preacher didn't hold him down long enough.")
To: cherokee1
Standard practice in the "old Navy" when you release a man from the brig you give him $50 to purchase the "health and comfort" items he needed to maintain personal hygiene. It was known euphemistically as a "flying fifty"... appropriate, huh?
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