Verns friends

[Vern Humphrey]

I'll tie you to a post and play the Bagpipes.

Not my pipes, you won't -- you wouldn't know how to tune them.

[dogtag]

You squeeze 'em, then blow in one end
and this bloody awful noise come out.

[Allen]

Getting weird.

[PWC]

yeah, it just drones on.......

[Vern Humphrey]

You squeeze 'em, then blow in one end
and this bloody awful noise come out.

Yez wouldn't know a taor lauth from a leum lauth.

[lyman]

yall need to get a room

[Vern Humphrey]

Ah, yez lads have so much to learn,

In piping, because you cannot pause the music, the music is articulated by "grace notes." As in other Celtic art forms, when two or more things are put together, a new thing is formed. So notes in piping are not just a particular frequency, they are a pattern of several frequencies.

For example, you want to go from E to D. You use the Throw on D. You close the chanter, covering all 8 stops. Then you play Low A, lifting the little finger of the right hand. Then you play False C, by replacing the little finger and lifting the middle and ring fingers of the right hand, and then you play Low A again, then D by lifting the index, middle and ring fingers of the right hand.

Of course this note (the Throw on D) has its own internal timing not related to the overall timing of the piece you are playing.

[barretcreek]

yall need to get a room

You watch that video?

[Sako]

I have carried both -- and used them in combat.

Vern, would you be willing to share any stories? I for one would be very grateful to read anything you are willing to post.
Thanks
Steven

[Vern Humphrey]

Vern, would you be willing to share any stories? I for one would be very grateful to read anything you are willing to post.
Thanks
Steven

My second tour, I was a company commander in Northern I Corps, and interacted with Australian Special Forces. I used to take them out riding on my APCs and drop them off wherever they wanted. I took out so many of them I complained to the Battalion Commander, "How come I always get that job?"

And he said, "They say you're the only one who can navigate." :-)

[dogtag]

It's always good to know exactly where you are as there
are a lot of nasty places where you wouldn't want to be.

[Vern Humphrey]

It's always good to know exactly where you are as there
are a lot of nasty places where you wouldn't want to be.

I hate to brag, but I have always been damn' good at land navigation, even back in the old compass-and-pace-count days.

[JohnPeeff]

It was almost impossible to navigate in War Zone D, solid green on your map, not even contour lines, count paces and estimate distance as best you could and follow the compass. When you really had to know where you were call the arty(if in range) for a WP 100meter height of burst. Sometimes if you popped smoke it wouldn't clear the thick canopy and was difficult for an Aloft to identify. The "good old days"

[Vern Humphrey]

I have used a lot of WP for navigational purposes. And at night, especially along the coast, I used to plot Illumination concentrations, so the illum round would hang just on the horizon. Three rounds, spaced 120 degrees apart, would give you a very accurate fix.

I used to give helicopter pilots hell -- "When you take me up for a recon, you do it MY way." They liked to get down to nap-of-the-earth and zoom along. I'd make them lift to 5,000 feet and fly slowly, which I checked to see what was both on the map and on the ground.

Zone D was indeed difficult -- as was Western I Corps. We used Photo plannigrametic maps. They came in two kinds. There was the kind with a big white space in the middle, which told you there were clouds the day the photo mission was flown. And there were those with no white spots, which told you the guy who made the map was a lyin' sackaxxxx.

[Vern Humphrey]

Oh, no. An M1 or M14 and enough ammo to do the job weighs less than an M16 and enough ammo to do the same job. The .30-06 and .308 shoot THROUGH things.