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February 26th, 2011, 07:02 AM
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#1 | | Lifer
Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Texas
Posts: 4,057
| Zippo's!
I know that back when We were in Country most of us still smoked,let's see a Picture of Your Zippo's if You still have them, Here is mine!  
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March 2nd, 2011, 01:17 PM
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#2 | | Moderator
Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: New Mexico, USA
Posts: 4,728
| The lost art of Research is doing great...
Trung Si,
Well, I have a pair of them. One for each tour. I just can't find them in the house right now, plus I don't have a picture of them either, but I never have forgotten whats engraved on them.
#1,
Viet Nam
70-71
We the unwilling,
lead by the unqualified,
to do the unnecessary,
for the ungrateful.
Other side,
Send me home Sir,
with six road-guards,
four to carry me, one
to light the way and
one to count cadence.
#2,
Guns of the DMZ
70-72
Nude Woman! Would you believe that  ?
Other side,
When I kill the only
thing I feel is the
recoil of the gun.
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March 2nd, 2011, 01:29 PM
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#3 | | Old Salt
Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Dixie
Posts: 1,848
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I don't have any pictures but I still have a Zippo with a shield with my ship's name and motto on it, "We Deliver You Fire" (USS Rainier AE-5) ammo ship. I also have a Penguin brand that looks just like a Zippo but the quality of a Zippo isn't there that has the same slogan and shield on it. I bought them both at the ship's store back in the day.
The Zippo that I still have isn't the standard sized one, it's the smaller, slimmer model.
I had a full sized Zippo with the shield and slogan on one side and I soldered a Hong Kong dollar, that I had left over from R&R, on the opposite side of the lighter and it was so cool looking.
I lost it to a loose woman in a bar one night in Port Chicago California, where we were home ported at the Naval Ammunition Depot, when we were back here in the states. I'd give a hundred bucks to have that old Zippo back and I haven't smoked since 1-94.
7th
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March 7th, 2011, 05:50 AM
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#4 | | Squad Leader
Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Canton, MI
Posts: 285
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I lost the Zippo I had in VN many years ago. It didn't have engraving on it or anything so there's no great loss.
Here's a pic of a Zippo being put to good use: 
The caption says...
15 Nov 1965, Lai Khe, Vietnam --- November 15, 1965 - Lai Khe, South Vietnam: Lt. Don Burchell of Lyons, Georgia, sets fire to one of the huts in Viet Cong training camp discovered by elements of the 1st Infantry Division during operations in the Lai Khe region. Earlier in the same area, troops of the 1st Division stopped a Viet Cong attack at Bau Bang Village. --- Image by © Bettmann/CORBIS
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March 7th, 2011, 07:23 PM
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#5 | | Master Gunner
Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: Texas
Posts: 932
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I have a question for you Zippo users...
I do not smoke, never have...
But I like to carry a lighter of some kind when in the woods.
Problem is most of the cheap Butane lighters are not to bet your life on...
So if you "fuel up" a Zippo, how long can you depend upon it to light???
And I have tried some spendy/high tech butane lighters and I have not been satisified with them either...
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March 7th, 2011, 08:15 PM
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#6 | | Designated Marksman
Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Central Ohio
Posts: 621
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You could always tell the cheap guys (myself included) cause we never filled the thing up until it needed it.
You found out when you held that Camel down in there while you spun the wheel and lit the rascal with the flint, . . . 'cause all the fluid was gone.
Aboard ship, . . . I'm thinking every 5 or 6 days, . . . but again, . . . haven't smoked since Aug of '85, . . . memory may be fuzzy.
Oh, . . . and I've got one of those lighters with the Hong Kong Dollar, . . . belt buckle to match. CMAA aboard the ship didn't like it, . . . so I'd just cup a hand over it when he was around.
When I get my camera re-charged, . . . do some pics.
May God bless,
Dwight
Last edited by dwight55; March 7th, 2011 at 08:39 PM.
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March 7th, 2011, 08:26 PM
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#7 | | Lifer
Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Long Island NY
Posts: 7,891
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OK OK I know I was not a zippo carrier. My father gave me his wartime zippo and I dragged it to basic with me and yes I made the mistake of overfilling it and yes I got a rash on my ars as large as the day is long. No, the DI's never found out. However I do have my pops zippo, he got it on Okinawa before he went to Korea. It is engraved with Mt Fuji. I will try and find it, I know its not lost just MIA for the time being.
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March 8th, 2011, 02:19 AM
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#8 | | Lifer
Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Texas
Posts: 4,057
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Originally Posted by 82nd ABN  OK OK I know I was not a zippo carrier. My father gave me his wartime zippo and I dragged it to basic with me and yes I made the mistake of overfilling it and yes I got a rash on my ars as large as the day is long. | Been there and Done That! 
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March 8th, 2011, 06:42 AM
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#9 | | Designated Marksman
Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Central Ohio
Posts: 621
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Zee Camera, . . . she works,............
May God bless,
Dwight
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March 8th, 2011, 06:52 AM
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#10 | | Designated Marksman
Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Central Ohio
Posts: 621
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And more,.............
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March 8th, 2011, 09:41 AM
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#11 | | Moderator
Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: New Mexico, USA
Posts: 4,728
|  Research, still the only game in town......
Quote:
Originally Posted by NE450N02 I have a question for you Zippo users...
So if you "fuel up" a Zippo, how long can you depend upon it to light?? | Well NE450N02, when I smoked a fuel-up Zippo lighter would last me 7-10 days. It's all about how often you are lighting up or someone elses. Quote:
Originally Posted by 82nd ABN I made the mistake of overfilling it and yes I got a rash on my ars as large as the day is long. | It's happed to me more than once in country, you get that funny feeling on your thigh and it takes a few minutes to figuge out what the hell it is, what a rash... 
Good pictures dwight55, thanks.
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March 8th, 2011, 01:17 PM
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#12 | | Designated Marksman
Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Florida
Posts: 663
| And no matter how many times . . .
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Originally Posted by XXIV Corps Well NE450N02, when I smoked a fuel-up Zippo lighter would last me 7-10 days. It's all about how often you are lighting up or someone elses.
It's happed to me more than once in country, you get that funny feeling on your thigh and it takes a few minutes to figuge out what the hell it is, what a rash...
Good pictures dwight55, thanks. | it's always a big friggin' mystery until you figure out where the burning is coming from. How come dat is? 
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March 8th, 2011, 01:30 PM
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#13 | | Snappin In
Join Date: Sep 2004
Posts: 31
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I have no idea where my Zippo is but I remember sending knockoffs home with Snoopy doing and saying things Snoopy should not have been saying or doing.They were a big hit with my friends in the world
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March 8th, 2011, 02:49 PM
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#14 | | Lifer
Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Murfreesboro, TN
Posts: 3,114
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I guess I'm really getting to be an old fart, I'm sending two Zippos back for repair this week. I'm lighting Pall Malls with my Zippo pipe lighter now.
Twenty years ago my house was broken into. They got a Rolex and my first two Zippos. I could have cared less for the watch (insured) but my first Zippo I'd had since I was fourteen. I had a quarter soldered to it and Washington's face was just about worn off. I'd like to get my hands on the ******* that stole it!
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March 8th, 2011, 07:04 PM
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#15 | | Lifer
Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Oregon
Posts: 2,720
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Zippos are as necessary as guns. I have gotten the rash a couple of times (it HURTS), and agree that 7-10 days is about right for in between refills.
I have two sterling silver Zippos. Used to have three but the TSA stole my 1941 replica sterling silver one out of checked cargo luggage, and claim they "threw it away" - F-ing liars. 
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