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From: "Vern Humphrey" 
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To: goffscalif{at}aol.com [mailto:goffscalif{at}aol.com]
>
> > It kind of reminds me of a class in our local volunteer fire
> department --
> > "Everything you know about fires, you learned from movies and
> TV.  And all
> > of it's dead wrong."
>
> And I bet you could expand on that by saying, "If you depend on what you
> learned from movies and TV, it'll get you real dead real quick."
> I know that when
> Hollywood addresses subjects on which I have some practical
> expertise, they
> portray things so wrong that someone who acted accordingly would
> be in real
> trouble (e.g. flying F-14 Tomcats - or any other fighter -
> recklessly and without
> any regard whatsoever for procedure and checklists; there's even
> an ejection
> checklist, and that and all or parts of other checklists are
> boldface itsems,
> meaning you have to know them perfectly from memory - and you
> still read the
> boldface items when accomplishing a checklist).
>
> Just once I'd like to see Hollywood show someone hand carrying a
> hand receipt
> from point A to point B - though such a simple thing and such a
> low degree of
> accuracy would probably strain them beyond repair.
>
The problem of UNteaching people the things they learned from the movies
and TV is a serious one -- that's why the Army finally eliminated the
full-automatic capability of the M16 (current versions have a 3-round burst
control.)
>


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