Posted on Dec 7, 2018
Pearl Harbor Attack - Radio Bulletins - December 7th, 1941
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The Leaders of Japan played their cards just enough to sandbag the United States . Then they were able to get close enough to attack Pearl Harbor, Hawaii December 7th, 1941.
Word of the Day : December 7, 2018
sandbag
verb SAND-bag
Definition
1 : to bank, stop up, or weight with sandbags.
2 a : to hit or stun with or as if with a sandbag.
b : to treat unfairly or harshly.
c : to coerce by crude means.
d : to conceal or misrepresent one's true position, potential, or intent especially in order to
take advantage over : to hide the truth about oneself so as to gain an advantage over another.
Did You Know ?
In the 19th century, the verb sandbag began to be used to describe the act of bludgeoning someone with a small, sand-filled bag—a tactic employed by ruffians, usually as a prelude to robbing their victims. The verb went on to develop metaphorical extensions, such as "to coerce by crude means." By the 1940s, it was being used of a strategy in which a poker player with a good hand bets weakly, in order to draw other players into holding on to their hands and raising the bet. The use of sandbag has since evolved to refer to a general strategy of playing down one's position in order to gain some sort of advantage.
Examples :
Management must have realized that reading employee survey responses aloud at the company-wide meeting would make employees feel sandbagged, but they chose to do it anyway.
"Lock's season began with Heisman Trophy dreams. It has detoured toward a familiar and unfortunate destination, the place where the quarterback's career numbers are sandbagged by his struggles when the spotlight shines." — Ben Frederickson, The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 3 Nov. 2018.
Word of the Day : December 7, 2018
sandbag
verb SAND-bag
Definition
1 : to bank, stop up, or weight with sandbags.
2 a : to hit or stun with or as if with a sandbag.
b : to treat unfairly or harshly.
c : to coerce by crude means.
d : to conceal or misrepresent one's true position, potential, or intent especially in order to
take advantage over : to hide the truth about oneself so as to gain an advantage over another.
Did You Know ?
In the 19th century, the verb sandbag began to be used to describe the act of bludgeoning someone with a small, sand-filled bag—a tactic employed by ruffians, usually as a prelude to robbing their victims. The verb went on to develop metaphorical extensions, such as "to coerce by crude means." By the 1940s, it was being used of a strategy in which a poker player with a good hand bets weakly, in order to draw other players into holding on to their hands and raising the bet. The use of sandbag has since evolved to refer to a general strategy of playing down one's position in order to gain some sort of advantage.
Examples :
Management must have realized that reading employee survey responses aloud at the company-wide meeting would make employees feel sandbagged, but they chose to do it anyway.
"Lock's season began with Heisman Trophy dreams. It has detoured toward a familiar and unfortunate destination, the place where the quarterback's career numbers are sandbagged by his struggles when the spotlight shines." — Ben Frederickson, The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 3 Nov. 2018.
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Publicizing the addresses of politicians is done as a sandbagging measure; some hope it will persuade them to modify their positions on issues.
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Depression doesn't just effect those suffering from it......i wrote this song to help me deal with what my loved one was going through.
Thank you my friend SGT John " Mac " McConnell for sharing the documentary Compilation Of Mutual and CBS Radio Bulletins From December 7th, 1941. Interruption of radio broadcasts and failed communications with Honolulu or Manila, Philippians.
As FDR stated December 7, 1941 was indeed a day of infamy which shook the nation and motivated many to serve in the military services, in the factories, and crops in fields and orchards, on the docks and merchant marine, and in homes across this land.
Over the next 4 years, we mobilized industry and the draft system to flesh out the military services Army [including the relatively new Army Air Corps and Tank Corps], Navy, and Marines [ each with their own air corps.]
Landing in Tunisia on 17 November 1942 [Operation Torch] and on Guadalcanal on 7 August 1942 [Operation Watchtower] were costly in terms of casualties [mainly disease in the jungles and swamps of Guadalcanal]. Lessons learned were quickly applied to change tactics and over a longer period to modify weapons and equipment. As always the American fighting man used ingenuity to develop local solutions to seemingly intractable problems.
Now a shift in focus to sandbag :-)
As a former enlisted U.S. Army combat engineer, I was 'introduced" to sandbags - first to unload the wired bale of sandbags; second to fill by shoveling dirt and sand; and third to stack to form stacks of sandbags to absorb indirect fire and bomb fragments primarily in training at Fort Leonard Wood in early 1975. Later at Fort Campbell we used and reused sandbags for exercises and training.
As a student of military history I was familiar of sandbags in revetments as well as sandbags to shore up river banks in preparation to withstand floods.
To sandbag or not to sandbag that is the question, whether tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of dastardly slum lords or to take up arms against the sea of iniquity ...
I trekked across the sandy beach and came across a deflated sandbag shorn of sand and flapping in the sea-breeze. I stopped to snatch up the sole sandbag and take it to a nearby stool where I pondered the sandbag as an object and a metaphor.
Being sandbagged is to placed in a disadvantage not of your own making.
Sandbagging [gerund form] is a dastardly process for despicable folks to take advantage of the naive. :-)
sandbag song
Nicci Moller "Depression doesn't just effect those suffering from it......i wrote this song to help me deal with what my loved one was going through."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ly1ULPuFt-k
FYI COL Mikel J. Burroughs LTC Stephen C.Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen Lt Col Charlie Brown Maj Bill Smith, Ph.D. Maj William W. 'Bill' Price SCPO Morris Ramsey SGT Mark Halmrast Sgt Randy Wilber Sgt John H. SGT Gregory Lawritson CPL Dave Hoover SPC Margaret Higgins SSgt Brian Brakke 1stSgt Eugene Harless CPT Scott Sharon SSG William Jones
As FDR stated December 7, 1941 was indeed a day of infamy which shook the nation and motivated many to serve in the military services, in the factories, and crops in fields and orchards, on the docks and merchant marine, and in homes across this land.
Over the next 4 years, we mobilized industry and the draft system to flesh out the military services Army [including the relatively new Army Air Corps and Tank Corps], Navy, and Marines [ each with their own air corps.]
Landing in Tunisia on 17 November 1942 [Operation Torch] and on Guadalcanal on 7 August 1942 [Operation Watchtower] were costly in terms of casualties [mainly disease in the jungles and swamps of Guadalcanal]. Lessons learned were quickly applied to change tactics and over a longer period to modify weapons and equipment. As always the American fighting man used ingenuity to develop local solutions to seemingly intractable problems.
Now a shift in focus to sandbag :-)
As a former enlisted U.S. Army combat engineer, I was 'introduced" to sandbags - first to unload the wired bale of sandbags; second to fill by shoveling dirt and sand; and third to stack to form stacks of sandbags to absorb indirect fire and bomb fragments primarily in training at Fort Leonard Wood in early 1975. Later at Fort Campbell we used and reused sandbags for exercises and training.
As a student of military history I was familiar of sandbags in revetments as well as sandbags to shore up river banks in preparation to withstand floods.
To sandbag or not to sandbag that is the question, whether tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of dastardly slum lords or to take up arms against the sea of iniquity ...
I trekked across the sandy beach and came across a deflated sandbag shorn of sand and flapping in the sea-breeze. I stopped to snatch up the sole sandbag and take it to a nearby stool where I pondered the sandbag as an object and a metaphor.
Being sandbagged is to placed in a disadvantage not of your own making.
Sandbagging [gerund form] is a dastardly process for despicable folks to take advantage of the naive. :-)
sandbag song
Nicci Moller "Depression doesn't just effect those suffering from it......i wrote this song to help me deal with what my loved one was going through."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ly1ULPuFt-k
FYI COL Mikel J. Burroughs LTC Stephen C.Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen Lt Col Charlie Brown Maj Bill Smith, Ph.D. Maj William W. 'Bill' Price SCPO Morris Ramsey SGT Mark Halmrast Sgt Randy Wilber Sgt John H. SGT Gregory Lawritson CPL Dave Hoover SPC Margaret Higgins SSgt Brian Brakke 1stSgt Eugene Harless CPT Scott Sharon SSG William Jones
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