municipalities would love to have them for utility vehicles and light
plowing. And if they aren't safe to drive, then why are they being used =
at
all? I'm missing the logic. =
Regarding the use of ships for gunnery practice. Obviously the gunners
need to learn how to shoot at ships, however I question the need to sink
ships with artillery. I'd rather see a ship scrapped out than sunk to fo=
rm
another manmade reef of questionable value. There is a lot of steel in
those ships. Much of the hull plating is over 2" thick on the destroyers=
.
I can imagine that 100 years from now, our decendents will be talking abo=
ut
how wasteful their ancesters were when we were stupid enough to sink
perfectly reusable/recycleable steel ships. Meanwhile they will be busy=
trying to figure out how to make steel affordably when gas and oil is
$20/gallon and electricity is $2.00/kwhr or more. =
Dave
Message text written by INTERNET:SHamil0725@aol.com
>If they need targets, Jim Rice and I can go out to some local junk
yard and haul in 1952 Plymouths to trade for M151s, one for one. We
can then sell them to listers for $50 each...
Sam Hamilton
Stillwater, Oklahoma<
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