WWII Fire Control Tech & Order of the Palm
January 2nd, 2009 From
>Date: Tue, 11 Nov 1997 10:27:16 -0800 (PST)
>From: Tracy Johnson
>To: MAHAN-L
>Subject: WWII Fire Control Tech & Order of the Palm
>Precendence: bulk
>Sender: mahan-owner@microworks.net
>Reply-To: mahan@microworks.net
>
>What was the proper terminology for a WWII U.S. Fire Control Technician
>First Class? Was the word “Technician” part of the rating or was it
>something else or left blank?
>
>I am genning up a bogus award parodied after the “Order of the Palm” fame
>of the movie “Mr. Roberts”, to be given to a WWII vet as a Christmas
>present. I want to get the rating right on the certificate. (We’ve also
>used this award in my Reserve unit, however “off-line” and “out of
>uniform” to avoid any “good order and discipline” issues and without
>signature or title of any real official.)
>
>(P.S. If anyone wants a copy of the award for their own personal use,
>e-mail me a request off the list. It is a MS-Word document and your
>e-mail must be able to handle the attachment.
>
>For those that wish to contruct their own copy, the graphic contains
>clip-art of two palm trees from MSWORKS (2palmtrs.wmf) followed by the
>below text, excerpted from the final letter of Mr. Roberts … using the
>True Type Billboard font at 18 point, Centered, the “Order of the Palm”
>line goes up to 36 point then back down to 18 afterward. It then goes
>down to 16 point at the sentence that starts with “This award…”.
>Parchment with border can be obtained at any Staples or Office Depot:)
>
>The Chief of Naval Inoperations takes great
> pleasure in awarding the
> Order of the Palm
> to
> add_a_rate/rank_and_name
>For “Action against the enemy, above and
> beyond the call of duty.”
>This award is presented to those exceptional
>individuals who have “sailed from Tedium to Apathy
>and back again, with an occasional side trip to
>Monotony”, who “have discovered”…”that the
>unseen enemy”…”is the boredom that eventually
>becomes a faith,” and “that the ones who refuse
>to surrender to it are the strongest of all.”
>
>—
>
>Tracy Johnson
>Minister of Propaganda, Justin Thyme Productions
>tjohnson@adnetsol.com
>”Semper Pollus”
> ADC-2239-5531