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Old September 13th 03, 05:34 PM
Michael Wise
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In article ,
Aerophotos wrote:

sound like US Navy G- jackets

how ironic

flying over arab land wearing arab clothing


Pakistanis are not arabs, nor is Arabic their language.


--Mike



Buy Pakistani?
The Pentagon is about to waive "buy American" provisions of U.S. law

and
allow Pakistan to provide the goatskin leather used in the distinctive

U.S.
aviator bomber jackets. The Defense Department has notified a U.S. leather
tanner that it will waive provisions of the law known as the Berry

Amendment
that requires the Pentagon to buy key components from U.S. manufacturers.

In
April, the Pentagon announced it would buy 12,000 to 30,000 of the brown,
fur-collared bomber jackets over the next several years.