Re: [MV] Not helpful

Joe Baker (majoruscavalry@yahoo.com)
Fri, 5 Mar 1999 05:23:31 -0800 (PST)

Asking for the facts before you act is not a "put down". If you are
going to ask Congressman and Senators to take affirmative action in
the hobbies best interest you need to have the facts in place before
you act. Otherwise you risk starting them off in a direction that
could be an embarrassment to them and ourselves. Believe me once you
embarrass a Congressman you will never get any action out of them again.

As for asking for the elimination of the BTAF, you have a better
chance of asking for the elimination of Congress. What we should be
doing is examining the procedures they operate under and asking for
modification of those procedures. That is a much more reachable
objective and would accomplish the same goal.

>From what I am hearing our objections are with the "lend lease" act
and other military aid programs devised during the Cold War. Most of
these programs extended our control over the equipment after it was
removed from service in the countries that received the equipment.
What needs to be accomplished is a fresh law that designates these
vehicles as antiques and collectables and then exempts them from these
bans. That would be a easy law to construct and ask for its adoption.

In the military I learned that it is always much easier to go to the
flank of a target rather than into a frontal assault. That is the
case here. A designation of antique status and then a permission to
import "antiques" would solve our problem as I see it.

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Joe Baker
Major, Cavalry

Formerly of the
1st Squadron, 2d Armored Cavalry Regiment (Germany)
and the 418th Med Co (AMB) RVN

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