Originally Posted By conndcj:
Was going through an old range bag when I found this.  It is brand new.  I assume this is a Benchmade of some sort?  Limerick.  No wiggle or lock rock at all.

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Originally Posted By MaxxII:
Once a week. Unless we need something.
I thought about offering to pick some up for you, but I wasnt sure how you'd feel about cheese wraps being sent up to Wisconsin from St Louis.

Originally Posted By MaxxII:



After that incident in Okinawa, we went to Camp Fuji in mainland Japan.
While we were there we did a live fire exercise. In the middle of the shoot one of the Japanese Self Defense Force RSO's came by and began asking what we were shooting, (Ammo that is larger/more destructive than what the range is designed for tears up the range and RSO's get mad when you destroy their ranges unnecessarily).
My Lt at the time was a good guy, but didnt speak any Japanese and the RSO either didnt or pretended he did not speak English. My Lt was reduced to making "pew pew" noises and mimicking a machine gun and a 25 mm cannon. He wasnt doing a great impression and I could see the RSO had a look on his face like "WTF is this idiot doing?"

I let it go for a bit and then ran up, introduced myself, asked him what he wanted to know, and then told him what caliber weapons we shooting on the range. I told him we had been cleared to shoot those platforms on the range, but if there was a mistake, we'd be happy to move to the correct range if he preferred. The RSO said everything was fine, and we could continue shooting, thanked me for my time and left.

I turned and looked at my Lt, and told him we were good to go and started walking off.

Lt got annoyed and said "Cpl Maxx, you never told me you spoke Japanese!"
"You never asked, Sir."

Another time we were down in Roppongi at a club, one of my buddies who fancied himself a ladies man asked me to teach him some Japanese to break the ice with the local girls in the night clubs. He said he wanted to say, "Hello my name is Tony, what's your name?"
I taught him something close to that.
He was puzzled after two different girls just laughed at him and walked away. He came back to me to ensure he was saying it right.

Since he was my buddy, I listened to what he was saying, made the appropriate corrections to his pronunciation, and then had him repeat it several times until he got it exactly right, then I sent back out to try again.

This girl spoke English and after she was done laughing at him, she asked him he was running around telling women his name was Tony and he had a small penis.

Tony was pissed, and but it broke the ice with the girl and he had a chance to show her what he had so it all worked out in the end.

Fun times when you're the one who understand's what's being said.