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2 unusual facts about The Short-Timers


The Short-Timers

After his quick recovery, Joker learns that the platoon commander was killed by a friendly grenade, while the squad leader went insane and attacked an NVA position with a BB gun only to be shot down.

Animal Mother, the squad's M60 machine gunner, threatens Cowboy's life and refuses to retreat.


Armstrong County, Texas

Ranch historian Laura Vernon Hamner interviewed many "old-timers" in Armstrong County during the last decade of the 19th century and the first decade of the 20th century in preparation for her later writings on the Texas Panhandle.

Battle of Huế

In the 1987 film Full Metal Jacket (based on Gustav Hasford's 1979 novel The Short-Timers), the main characters are sent from Đà Nẵng to Huế to cover the fighting, and the majority of the Vietnam scenes take place during the battle.

Charles Sutter

Sutter was the President of the Old Timers' Club of Edmonton, organized Edmonton's first group of Masons, and was active with groups including the Order of Oddfellows, the United Workmen, and the Knights of Pythias.

Cuarteto Patria

Famous old-timers have recorded with the group include: Faustino Oramas (El Guayabero); Compay Segundo and Rey Caney, who led the group for a while in his younger days.

George Varghese

Among his contributions to network algorithmics are Deficit Round Robin (co-invented with M. Shreedhar), a scheduling algorithm that is widely used in routers, and timing wheels (with Tony Lauck), an algorithm for fast timers that is used as the basis of fast timers in Linux and FreeBSD.

Leslie and the Badgers

The band made their TV debut in April 2008 playing their original “Old Timers”, on the critically acclaimed FX series, The Riches starring Minnie Driver.

Morrison, Illinois

In 1952, the manufacture of range timers was transferred to the Morrison factory from Somersworth, New Hampshire.

Snooty

According to old-timers, he was first called Baby Snooks, named after a popular radio character on the The Baby Snooks Show played by Fanny Brice in the late 1940s.

The Phantom Blooper

According to the official Gustav Hasford website, The Short-Timers, The Phantom Blooper, and Hasford's third and last completed book, a noir detective novel titled A Gypsy Good Time (1992), are currently out of print.

The Short-Wave Mystery

The Hardy boys are drawn into a mystery when a group of thieves steals a collection of stuffed animals from an Estate sale.

Unicast flood

Another common cause are hosts with ARP timers longer than the address cache timeout on switches—the switch forgets which port connects to the host.


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