Murphy's Laws of Armor

[Glenn Dowdy]

Colin,

I found you first published this here in Feb 2001

http://groups.google.com/groups?q=armor+murphy+group:alt.folklore.military&h
l=en&selm=oe6k9sg63ara8rarteqkm3q61dl0cgt8em%404ax.com&rnum=2

Hope this helps.

Glenn D.

[Colin Campbell]

I sent an email to the editors yesterday with a link to this post.
We'll see what happens.

--
We make war so we may live in peace.
Aristotle

[Colin Campbell]

On Tue, 22 Jan 2002 09:32:34 -0800, Colin Campbell
<col...@linkline.com> wrote:

>On Tue, 22 Jan 2002 09:35:48 -0700, "Glenn Dowdy"
><glenn...@agilent.com> wrote:
>
>>Colin,
>>
>>I found you first published this here in Feb 2001
>>
>>
>>http://groups.google.com/groups?q=armor+murphy+group:alt.folklore.military&h
>>l=en&selm=oe6k9sg63ara8rarteqkm3q61dl0cgt8em%404ax.com&rnum=2
>>
>>Hope this helps.
>
>I sent an email to the editors yesterday with a link to this post.
>We'll see what happens.

Well, got the answer. The text follows:

Thanks for the information. We plan to run it in the March-April 2002
"Letters" column. Would you please send me your signature block as
you would like it to appear in the magazine.

Thanks,

Vivian Oertle
ARMOR Magazine

-----Original Message-----
From: Colin Campbell [mailto:col...@linkline.com]
Sent: Monday, January 21, 2002 10:59 PM
To: vivian...@knox.army.mil
Subject: 'Murphys Laws of Armor'

I saw the article 'Murphy's Laws of Armor' in the January-Feburary
issue and would like to claim credit as the author. These started out
as a set of observations over a series of years while I occupied the
positions of Tank Commander, Platoon Sergeant and Master Gunner in
3/185 Armor and, after that 1/18 cavalry.

In Feburary 2000, I posted my observations to the Usenet newsgroup
alt.folklore.military and solicited additional items. Here is a link
to the origional post:
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&selm=oe6k9sg63ara8rarteqkm3q61dl0cgt8e
m%404ax.com
(Note: this should appear as one line of text)

The final version (which made it to Armor magazine) includes both my
origional items and those added by the following people:

Richard Adams (formerely 1/18 Cavalry now 2nd Brigade, 40th ID)
Scott D. Hann (formerly 1/15 Inf.)
Jorge Castro (unit unknown)
Sean Murphy (19D - unit unknown)
Pete C. (Unit and MOS unknown)

The following were people who posted using 'handels' rather than real
names:
'Yeff' (former USAF)
'Ceejay'

[Glenn Dowdy]

"Colin Campbell" <col...@linkline.com> wrote in message
news:65jr4ucrp69pdghj1...@4ax.com...

> On Tue, 22 Jan 2002 09:32:34 -0800, Colin Campbell
> <col...@linkline.com> wrote:
>
> >On Tue, 22 Jan 2002 09:35:48 -0700, "Glenn Dowdy"
> ><glenn...@agilent.com> wrote:
> >
> >>Colin,
> >>
> >>I found you first published this here in Feb 2001
> >>
> >>
>
>>http://groups.google.com/groups?q=armor+murphy+group:alt.folklore.military
&h
> >>l=en&selm=oe6k9sg63ara8rarteqkm3q61dl0cgt8em%404ax.com&rnum=2
> >>
> >>Hope this helps.
> >
> >I sent an email to the editors yesterday with a link to this post.
> >We'll see what happens.
>
> Well, got the answer. The text follows:
>
> Thanks for the information. We plan to run it in the March-April 2002
> "Letters" column. Would you please send me your signature block as
> you would like it to appear in the magazine.
>

Hey, how about letting _us_ respond to this for you?

Glenn D.

[Replacement Tommel <]

On Tue, 22 Jan 2002 12:35:14 -0800, in article
<65jr4ucrp69pdghj1...@4ax.com>, Colin wrote:
>

(snip)

Surely calls for a couple of rounds at the 404!!! Drinks oughtta be on the
house, but if not, I'll pony up for it!

-Tom

典rue heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to
surprass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever
cost." - Arthur Ashe

[Yeff]

On Tue, 22 Jan 2002 09:35:48 -0700,

Glenn Dowdy<glenn...@agilent.com> wrote in
alt.folklore.military:

Damn, I'd forgotten I'd even contributed to that thread.
Thanks!

-Jeff B. (Yeff of all trades)
yeff at erols dot com