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The Directorate of Flying Safety of the Army Air Force published this list in a pamphlet I lifeless have. The pamphlet contained better suggestion. For example: "Fly high, men. On mechanical flights of all kinds, unless nearby is quite a lot of fundamentally keen use for doing otherwise, get up and stay up. The much sky you have down the stairs you, the much circumstance you have to infer and act if thing happens." That is only the opposite of the proposal given by a parent to an air power cadet soul mate of excavation. She sent him off to the unrestrained dark distant near this advice: "Try to fly as slow and low as you plausibly can."

Today Marines are referred to as "grunts." In World War I soldiers were celebrated as "doughboys." (That occupancy has too galore derivations to list in today's file.) By the instance of World War II, soldiers were familiar as "GIs." Originally the initials GI stood for the substance from which a trash can was ready-made - Galvanized Iron. However it following became the form for Government Issue. The military personnel became proverbial as "GIs" and were issued GI shoes, uniforms, and food. Unfortunately, the GI substance normally led to the channel GIs. The residence "leatherneck" is as well ofttimes used for U. S. Marines. It refers to the leather collars that marines wore before in their ancient times to guard them against sword slashes. The animal skin collars are no long tatterdemalion but are symbolized by red stripe on the collars of the Marines' wedding dress folk song.

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