Thursday, July 15, 2010

Tactical eye for the straight guy...

You might be tactical if:
You can, at a glance, tell the difference between Desert Tan, Coyote Brown, and Flat Dark Earth.
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16 comments:

Michael said...

Does this count? http://www.militaryimages.net/photopost/data/642/TactiCool.JPG

7:13 PM, July 15, 2010
Firehand said...

"They're all effing BROWN, now drop it!"

8:06 PM, July 15, 2010
Anonymous said...

Welp, I totally fail.

I can live with that.

9:23 PM, July 15, 2010
Anonymous said...

Ummmm ... Desert Tan and Flat Dark Earth both have real FS numbers and Coyote Brown doesn't?

BoxStockRacer

11:35 PM, July 15, 2010
B Smith said...

@ BSR: Heh. Scale-modeler?

1:44 AM, July 16, 2010
Drang said...

yeeeaaaahhh... I bought what was billed as a "Desert Tan" Bail-out Bag from LA Police Gear, and got what looks to me more like Coyote...

1:53 AM, July 16, 2010
Douglas Hester said...

Desert Tam?

2:39 AM, July 16, 2010
staghounds said...

Apposite:

http://www.thedoghousediaries.com/?p=1406

8:07 AM, July 16, 2010
staghounds said...

Oops, fixed it:

Colours by sex.

8:10 AM, July 16, 2010
Rob said...

Worked gun store retail for years: Most pathetic lament from grown men: "This camo doesn't match!"

10:41 AM, July 16, 2010
rick said...

You may also be tactically metrosexual, too.

12:53 PM, July 16, 2010
Jeanette K. said...

Now that is just hilarious :)

3:45 PM, July 16, 2010
Montie said...

Staghounds,

Heh,heh, that chart is excellent!

5:11 PM, July 16, 2010
Anonymous said...

B Smith:

Yup. From the time I was six. Planes and modeling ran in the family - Dad's dad was a Master Mechanic/Gunner on DH-4s at the end of WWI, Dad was a Navigator on 17's and 29's in WWII, and I first took the controls of a real plane (a 172) when I was nine. I'd read ALL of the fighter pilot autobiogs from Roland Garros (WWI) right through to Jack Broughton (Thud Ridge), so flying was eeeeaasy. Had to quit flying in High School though - bad eyes, and needed the money for college.

BoxStockRacer

5:59 AM, July 17, 2010
Will said...

BSR,

worked with a guy who's eyes were so bad that even corrected, he didn't qualify for a commercial license. He did fly Privately. Soloed in his dad's P-51 at 16. His dad was a B-1 Bomber pilot.

11:10 PM, July 17, 2010
Anonymous said...

Will:

My eyes aren't great, but they are correctible to the 20-20 - 20-40 range. Sadly, those little First Class Pilots Certificates mandate 20-20 vision, and I don't think I can pull off an Edward Mannock (WWI pilot with a glass eye who flew SE-5s), or a Robert L. Scott (God Is My Co-Pilot), who stole an eye chart, memorized it, and lied his way through an eye exam to get transferred from flying transports to flying P-40s. I'm probably too honest to do something like that anyway.

Ironically, just a month or so after I turned 35, the U.S. Air Force began accepting degreed engineers who wore glasses into Air Force Reserve Pilot training.

Up to age 34.

In F-15s!

*sigh* - At least I've got some ground down footpegs and a handful of trophies to recall my glory days.

BoxStockRacer

2:52 AM, July 18, 2010

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