Pin-Up Pilot

Myspace Layouts - Myspace Backgrounds - Myspace CodesPin-Up Pilot is an indie influenced rock band with energetic as well as melodic songs formed spring 2001 in Dayton Ohio under the name Unsung. It was here that Nick Ayers, Ramesh Berry and Jack Zika congealed their musical styles and influences to form this power trio. With not only a great following of loyal fans as well as positive reviews from local area press such as: Dayton Daily News, The Cincinnati Enquirer and various other sources. In 2004 Pin-Up Pilot found the opportunity to take there sound to Texas. It is Houston that they now call home. 2007 They added there long time friend Jellybean to the bands line up, a key element into making their band something you need to hear.The use of Pin-Ups on US official documents!John brought home three different official documents from the US Army that show, for those times, very daring pictures. The first document is a so-called Shelrep, Mortrep form.The form was meant for GI's to take with them to the front lines to report technical details on enemy fire.The soldier could fill in things like the bearing of the suspected gun position and the time in-between seeing an enemy gun flash (from firing a shell or mortar) and the moment the shell hit the ground occupied by the American troops.From this, the artillery counter-battery units could deduct the position of the enemy guns. Such information allowed the U. S. artillery to return fire quickly, efficiently and accurately.As you can imagine, the average GI preferred to keep his head down during an enemy artillery barrage. He had little interest in watching the flight of the shell and estimating the direction that it came from. The average soldier would head for the nearest trench or air raid shelter, or get as low to the ground as possible and cover his head. He did all this at full gallop as the shells fell around him.So, how does higher headquarters motive these troops to keep the forms and perhaps even fill them out at an opportune moment?Their commanders, working hand-in-hand with artists, cartoonists and propaganda people developed a method to make those forms worth carrying. They added pin-up pictures of lovely semi-dressed and naked women to the documents. No healthy young man is going to throw away a perfectly good picture of a sexy half-naked woman. The officers at headquarters knew that as long as the girls were sexy, and the troops were young, those forms would be carried through Hell and high water. The fact that John kept his through all these years seems to prove that they were correct.