From: Dave J (sd0044@gwtc.net)
Date: Tue Jan 10 2006 - 01:12:25 PST
They let marines fly airplanes? For real?? Oh geeeeeeeze where's the
bomb shelter?
(grin).
Or a tank to hide in. (MV content)
Dave J
(Remembering the Marine pilots flying Corsairs off of damn poor strips in
WWII in the South Sea islands and doing a damn fine job of it too.)
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Ryan Gill" <rmgill@mindspring.com>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Monday, January 09, 2006 5:01 PM
Subject: Re: [MV] a pirate's life for me...
> At 4:39 PM -0700 1/9/06, Dave J wrote:
> >Hmmmm Since it a well known fact that the US Army has more ships than
the
> >US Navy, ........ who's (what country's) is the `largest' "navy" then?
> >
> >Reminds me of one of my favorite assignements-----a quad service
> >base......Misawa AB Japan. An Air Force Base.
> >When I was there the US Navy had the airplanes (P-3s) and operated the
> >flight line, The US Army provided the ships that supplied us. The USAF
had
> >the armor (EOD had an M-60 tank with a dozer blade and the Secuity Police
a
> >bunch of peacekeepers). And the Marines did what they alway do, wander
> >around wondering what TO do ...... (nasty grin). (Actually the marines
> >assigned there were part of the NAVCOMSECGP that shared spaces with us on
> >"the hill".)
>
> Of course there's Marine Aviation. As foreign people sometimes describe
it, the Navy's Army's Airforce.
>
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