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You know you're a geek when...

This arrives in the mail and your fingers tremble as you open the package... TM9-500, one of the bibles of US military kit...

TM9-500_cover.jpgHere's the Table of Contents.

It's 3.5 inches of stuff to help you identify the obscure bits you find - although, of course, I'm just going to show pics of mostly major items...

There's stuff for me, Bill, Neffi, Heartless Lib, CAPT H... heck, there's even stuff for Og (note, flat-fenders boyo!).

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 I like Cpt. H's stuff. Love Bill's, though.
 
OOOHHHH!  I want one!  Have the older editions but had never seen this one!

This is better than the olde days looking though the big Sears Roebuck Christmas Catalog-  picking out all the good stuff you want Santa to bring for Christmas.
 
And here I thought mine was going to be a field desk or something similar, since I'm a staff-puke now...M1 is much better though.

Ebay, Amazon, or other?
 
 Heartless: Um, Ebay, this one.  

J(NTA) - Me want the earlier ones, too.

The price has gone up on them since I bought mine.
 
"You know you're a geek when..."

You mean there was a shadow of a doubt in the first place??
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 Yippee!!!!!
I get the NO Debbie Schlussel Zone, ... again.

Cheers
 
The Fort Lewis Museum has an M103. I have a crate for one round of 120mm ammunition for it. I've used it for a camping box for years. Almost burned my house down with it, though. Years ago I found it for sale in a lumber yard in Oregon. All the blocking material was still in the box, so to get rid of it, I burned it in my fireplace. That thick 'tar-paper' really goes up; the chimney started whoofing, and the fire settled down to a dull roar about the time I was going for the extinguisher. The box has led a much quieter life since then.
 
MM,

Sounds like you may have had a chimney fire. Sometimes the buildup in a chimney will get set alight and it is a real hazard. The real danger is outside where sparks from the chimney can set your roof on fire. There is a reason chimney sweeps are still in business. Take care.

Steve
 
NevadaSteve,

     I thought it was a chimney fire too, but as soon as the tar paper was gone, the fire died down. The town I lived in was chimney fire central, back in the 70's with wood stoves everywhere. Had a neighbor once who melted his old TV antenna with a chimney fire.
 
Stupid people _will_  insist on burning pine in their fireplaces.  You'd think shutting the damper would stop a chimney fire. 

  If I ever build a house, I think I want a fireplace optimized for coal, just to be contrary, and old-fashioned, and anti-"green".
 
I have looked into that. I want at least one of everything mentioned in the book. Yah, I know, all anybody really needs is boots, a rifle, and some ammo and food.  Fun gizmos are fun!
 
As if we are going to let you anywhere near a Redstone missile.  Much less a Pershing I.
 
 Already been near a Redstone missile. I used to work at Redstone Arsenal, and they had an old one out in a field there. I have been in the same room with 4 or 5 never-used Saturn I boosters, which were just a bundle of Redstones. Wernher squirreled stuff away to keep his bosses from finding out about it. He learned his bureaucracy in the Nazi school. This is why the Alabama State Likker Store in Hunsville had excellent German wines, though the rest of their stock was rotgut.  Dealing with Alabama bureaucrats was child's play compared to getting along with the Nazi kind.