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Post by zswobbie1 on Jul 26, 2020 4:10:58 GMT -5
A question was asked, on a Facebook Flight Sim page: 'What is Marshalling?'
This answer made my day: 'You get given a 5 pointed Star and pin it on your chest then you can shoot bank robbers you can also hire a Deputy.'
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Post by Tom/CalClassic on Jul 26, 2020 9:54:29 GMT -5
Yes many meanings. . Marshalling is also the UK term for railroad yard switching, BTW.
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Post by chris_c on Jul 26, 2020 11:22:05 GMT -5
Handy word, marshalling; rather like herding except things instead of animals. In my Canadian Army experience it referred to assembling the Battery or Regimental vehicles at a particular place in time and in a particular order. This could be either the armoured vehicles and or the soft vehicles. So for a deployment to the exercise area the tracked vehicles would marshal at the railhead for loading onto the flatbed rail cars while the wheeled vehicles marshalled on the main parade square for the road move.
Chris
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Post by qxtoolman on Jul 31, 2020 2:27:27 GMT -5
Let's go back to My Youth... It means, standing out on Taxiway, in Rain, Snow, Fog, Freezing Rain, Blazing Sun, Gloom of Night, in 100+ Degree Heat or -50 Degree Temps, with howling winds from North, South, East & West. (Here in Portland it is the East, and back Home it was North / Northwest off Lake Superior.) Then you start waving arms at incoming Aircraft, in goofy ways, sometimes with Orange Wand Flashlights, to guide it down a line painted on the pavement, to "T" mark, that has the type of A/C painted next to it where A/C Stops. Then when the A/C is ready to leave you do pretty much the same thing, except You Wave or Salute the A/C Goodbye....
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Post by gharper on Jul 31, 2020 10:24:08 GMT -5
Did that for Southern, Republic and Northwest for 35 years in MEM.
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Post by qxtoolman on Aug 2, 2020 2:19:12 GMT -5
Did that for Southern, Republic and Northwest for 35 years in MEM. Always good to hear from another member of the "Herman" Club... Take Care, Stefan
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