Wise advice! (1 Viewer)

[Peter Reuss]

I recently ran across this:

The best defence against the atom bomb is not to be there when it goes off (British Army Journal, 1949)
Hard to argue!

 

[Mitch]

Said with typical british understatement
Mitch

 

[Louis Badolato]

What, you mean those "stop, drop and cover" films they showed in American Schools in the 50's, 60's and 70's weren't accurate?:rolleyes2::tongue:^&grin

 

[4th Hussar]

I grew up in Seattle with McCord AFB/ Ft Lewis to the South and the Puget Sound Naval Ship Yard to the West. Throw in 2 Boeing plants and we were obviously living in ground zero. At Whitworth Elementary we practiced stop, drop, cover and kiss your a__ away.................. It was somehow calming to know that when the balloon went up it would end very quickly.

 

[trooper]

It's simple, all you have to do is drive into one of these towns that have declared themselves a "nuclear free zone" and everything is hunky dory. Trooper

 

[lancer]

Major Kong in Kubrik's masterpiece "Dr. Strangelove" had the right idea. -- Al

 

[Scott]

Yep! One of my childhood nightmares! One night one of the seafood freezer plants in Gloucester blew up. Over in Rockport, about 6 miles away the 1st blast woke me up and the second blast and flash had me under the bed thinking the Russians had hit.

It's the idea of the slow nasty death from radiation that scares me.

 

[Martin Tabony]

You mean the green cotton suit, lined with charcoal, I was issued. Wouldn't have saved me. Bugger, now you tell me!
I always liked the way we were told to make sure anything electrical was unplugged. We might be dead but at least the kit would be O.K.! :salute:: and here's another for the general staff:salute::

Martin

 

[johnnybach]

I too had a "Noddy Suit" - as they were known - but was forbidden to ever put it on until I was told to. Apparently, once you had (put it on) it had to be discarded after 24 hours - and a new one substituted.

We had a Quartermaster who threatened us with a "fate worse than death" , if we opened one up.

Needless to say, "forbidding" was a challenging word - we did - but they were so b****y uncomfortably hot & sweaty, we just packed them back up - and told no-one! How that stupid thing would have ever saved us though - goodness knows! I humped the darn thing around for years (kept my spare bog-paper rolled in it too!)

As to unplugging electrical stuff - anyone got a non-electrical radio set? (Okay - clockwork one then?). Now, where's me flags - and boy scout semaphore booklet?
Alpha, Bravo, Charlie........................

First idea was best - don't be around when one goes off! johnnybach

 

[Martin Tabony]

Yeh we had to run around Germany wearing an old one and with a duff reperator canister. Carrying a new set for when someone shouted "the Russians are comming"!
I remember all of those "Survive to Fight" films. Aparently if you lie face down with your arms under you, you'll be O.K. I believe it, honest I do!

Martin

 

[johnnybach]

Did you say "RUN" around Deutschland M? Didn't you have the nags with you - so you could show the jolly-old-jerries a few pointers vis-a-vis the old horse jumping caper?

Mein leiber got int Himmel - Run!

And you were doing the 20 minute mile in Windsor Great Park last I heard too!%^V

You fitness freaks tee me orf! jb

 

[Peter Reuss]

I grew up in rural Iowa, so I figured being surrounded by farms would be about as safe a place as any...until someone pointed out the MINOR detail of SAC just down the road in Omaha!

 

[Go for Broke]

Pete, not to derail your thread, but I just read this book called "The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid" by Bill Bryson. Its a hilarious book about the author's childhood in Des Moine, Iowa in the 1950's. I thought you might be interested in it.