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Partipants at our first Basic Training in Perú. See them in action: www.vimeo.com/sportsfriends/peru
This FW44J was the basic trainer for the German Luftwaffe leading up to WWII. This aircraft was manufactured in 1940 is owned by Bert Filippi and based at Serpentine airstrip in Western Australia.
ouch ran out of bmfa light weight typhoon tina and finishing w/ lorna's laces seaside... colorways are close but no cigar
The Classic Sock
by Melissa Morgan-Oakes
from 2-at-a-time Socks
The most basic paintball gun possible.
A paintball falls down the hopper. Front trigger is pulled to free the paintball, then the rear trigger is pulled to release a jet of CO2. The CO2 goes through the porous material, hits the paintball, and carries it out the barrel and at the target.
SSgt Lundsford, our TI, went home for lunch so I sat at his desk to have a pic taken with his nice playboy centerfold. Later, someone took a pair of scissors to it and cropped the polaroid for me. Damnit! It was 1970 at Lackland AFB, TX.
Our host brother graduated the other day from basic school. Being my last few weeks in this lovely country, I've been jumping at every opportunity to capture... life. Kids are typically a delightful experience because they just love the camera and seeing their picture on the LCD. So this was a pretty fun day. Also because I knew a lot of the kids.
This is the entrance to the basic school. Does it look different from yours?
More than 500 Airmen assigned to the 323rd Training Squadron graduated from Basic Military Training at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, Texas, Sept 14-15, 2022. Col. Lauren A. Courchaine, Commander, 37th Training Wing, reviewed the ceremony (U.S. Air Force photo by Gregory Walker)
U.S. Air Force basic training trainees that will be placed in a 14-day restriction of movement period arrive at the 737th Training Support Squadron March 24, 2020, at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, Texas. The new recruits are the second group of trainees placed into the 14-day restriction of movement period, known as ROM. ROM trainees are healthy individuals with no known exposure to the COVID-19 virus and remain restricted within the training squadron for two weeks as an additional lay of protection to prevent the spread of COVID-19. During this period trainees exercise social distancing, which means maintaining a distance of approximately 6 feet, or 2 meters, from all others when possible to lessen chances of catching COVID-19, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (U.S. Air Force photo by Sarayuth Pinthong)
Translation:
Old Drent’s weatherstation
7th century
Stone wet: rain
Stone white: snow
Stone moving: storm
Stone cannot be seen: darkness
Stone dry: sun
Stone has fallen: earthquake
The suspension bridge is perhaps the best known classic bridge design. They can be as simple or as complex as you need them to be. In this case, simplicity has been chosen. The Water of Saughs is crossed in a single span that makes no contact with the fast flowing water below. Poles at either end host the cables that support and hold up the wooden deck and said cables are well anchored into the ground at either end.
Whilst this bridge looks flimsy, it's design allows for movement and its lightweight nature means it's more likely to avoid damage during windy periods. Walking over it alone was certainly a fun experience. I had every confidence in the towers and the cables but the wooden deck directly had a tendency to creak when stepped on. I have a lot of respect for bridges like this.
Although I've titled this photo "Basic Bridge", this isn't the most basic suspension bridge I've come across. In Glen Nevis, the idea of a basic suspension bridge is taken to the extreme as three steel cables cross the river. Two to hold onto and one to walk across...
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Laurel Valley Plantation
Off Highway 308 near Thibodaux, Louisiana
The basic tenant house types found at Laurel Valley Plantation are: the double house with built-in porch, the shotgun type and the basic Creole house type. Other forms are more specialized like the "Big House", the school, a church, the plantation store and various forms of utility buildings.
A description of the basic types of quarters at Laurel Valley follows. All houses are of wood frame construction with brick piers and chimneys, and except where noted have galvanized tin roofs.
The Double House Type
This popular "quarters type" is found on plantations throughout the Lower Mississippi Valley. It has some characteristics of several of the common folk types, namely: the double pen, the saddlebag, and the smaller Creole house.
All double houses at Laurel Valley have a built-in front roof overhang. Gables are sideward facing on these structures and double doors are located in front. A centered chimney bisects the roof line and has a double hearth which opens into two front rooms. A smaller square chimney punctures the back slope of the roof and also has provisions for double usage as is seen in a pair of stove pipe holes. Brick piers about two feet in height serve as foundations for the structure. Either centered steps or a pair of steps are noticed at the front porch. Steps at the rear of the house mark each of the double entrances. Board and batten exterior sheathing is found on each of these structures..
The double houses at Laurel Valley are of a consistently large size and were originally planned for double occupancy. The basic four room unit was divided into halves by a central partition which afforded only back to back room communication. In this form, the front room with its separate entrance was used mainly for sleeping while the rear room was used for living, cooking, eating, and washing. At a later date, many of these duplex dwellings at Laurel Valley were modified by the cutting of doors in the central partitions and thus by creating a four room house for a single family.
The double houses at Laurel Valley are among the oldest tenant buildings on the plantation. Originally, a total of twenty-six of these buildings formed two rows which faced the main plantation road. At the turn of this century, seven of these buildings in one row of thirteen, were demolished or moved to provide space for a battery of shotgun type tenant houses.
The Shotgun Type
The linear architectural form known as the "shotgun" is one of the most popular dwelling forms along Bayou Lafourche. The use of this form as a plantation quarters type generally occurred after 1900.
The shotgun buildings at Laurel Valley are long narrow structures which are one room wide and two rooms long. Gables are located at the front and rear of the house, and always face a road or lane. Front porches occur in each instance, and exterior steps occur only at the rear.
A popular explanation for the term "shotgun house" deducts that if a shot were fired through the front door of the house, the charge would pass through the interior openings, and would exit through the rear door. This direct line of openings is not found in any of the shotgun houses at Laurel Valley. Invariably, the plans consist of two rooms with a centered front and rear door, and a staggered interior door at the central partition, which is found to the side of a single hearth fireplace.
Functionally, the front room of these houses was used principally for sleeping, while the rear room was used for living, cooking, dining, and washing. The sizes of the shotgun dwellings found at Laurel Valley are uniform and are relatively small. Each is of wood frame construction and is raised about two feet on brick piers. Brick fireplaces that open only to the front room with a backside provision for a stove pipe are centered in each plan and bisect the ridge of the roof. Board and batten construction always exists on the long exterior walls, and horizontal clapboarding is usually used on the ends of the houses. Also evident, in each of these buildings, is a small "wash window" locate on a side wall in the rear room.
Special Building Types
Several other building forms exist at Laurel Valley. They are more adequately described according to their functions rather than their physical descriptions.
The remaining domociles are the main plantation house and the overseer's house. Both are linear in plan with long central halls. The overseer's house is essentially a miniature of the "Big House". Understandably, the "Big House" is larger, older, and more ornate than the overseer's house.
Another form that is linear only in exterior appearance is a "camphouse" found in the area of the unskilled laborers' quarters. This structure faces the main plantation road and has the basic form of two double houses, without their back rooms, that are placed side by side. A front built-in gallery provides the only means of communication between the two duplexes. Current workers on the plantation recall this structure as providing accommodation for migrant sugar workers.
(taken from State historical archives)
More than 600 Airmen assigned to the 433rd Training Squadron graduated from Basic Military Training at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, Texas, Oct. 5-6, 2022. Gen. Mike Minihan, Commander of Air Mobility Command, reviewed the ceremony. (U.S. Air Force photo by C Arce)
Basic old Thai Coach, Non tourist.Possibly a Hino coach.
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