"Bill & Ange" wrote in message
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Back in the late 70's early 80's, if you were within territorial waters on
the East Coast (Halifax area) the Junior Ranks mess at CFB Stadacona would
send take-out to order pizza to HMCS ships via Sea King helicopter if an
aircraft was available. Apparently this was normal.
I thought that all these stories were normal. In the Mekong Delta, the US
Army delivered our supplies by Caribou. When the US Army was forced to turn
over all fixed-wing to the USAF, a USAF colonel came down and told me that
our dirt strip was "unsafe" for the very same Caribou that the army could
fly, but the USAF could not. I said, "Well, there is a war going on,"
which really ****ed him off, because I insulted his masculinity, of which he
had none. So the Special Forces, which shared the camp, made some deal with
the Royal Australian Air Force, which then flew the exact same model of
Caribou (except it had a kangaroo on the tail) and they said that not only
would they deliver our stuff they would add a pallet (some four feet by four
feet) of beer! But we had to trade some AK-47s, of which every bunk had
several stashed for trading . The bad news is that they would not part with
Foster's or even Molsons, but they would dump the US Budweiser, which they
would not drink anyway, but we were desparate. On one trip they even asked
if they could park the plane and go out on an operation with us! They
wanted even more AK-47s. The Caribou, with its large tail, stook out like
the biggest bulllseye in the delta, and we converged several companies of
Vietnamese soldiers on the runway to unload and get them turned around as
soon as possible. So I nixed that, but threw in some extra AK-47s, thinking
of the difference between the old army flyers, and the Aussies, and the
chicken-**** USAF. There. I've said it. It only took me forty years, from
1968 to 2008, to say what they actually were. They did not give a thought
(I almost said ****, but would be unseemly) about the people on the ground.
The USAF would have let us starve. Anyway, in some later years, I learned
about a shooting, in OZ, and it was an automatic weapon, and I thought about
the ones we sent. We were all officers and gentlemen, or NCOs and also
professionals, and I thought no harm could come from it. The weapons would
not get loose. Maybe I was wrong. I wouldn't do that again today, but
those were some different days. ****. (There's that word again.) We even
smoked cigarettes.
"Rudy" wrote in message
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"Andrew Chaplin" wrote in message
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I wonder if someone is going to stomp on them for this.
http://miramichileader.canadaeast.co...article/448129
Nawww, they were just practicing a "pizza rescue"
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