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Four Marines Killed In Helicopter Crash In South Texas
MSNBC
Posted on 01/23/2003 4:32:56 AM PST by leadpenny
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TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: borderpatrol; drugskill; marines; militarizedborder; usmc; wod
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To: marajade
They are on the border, but not doing what they should be doing. The military should not be involved in the police work of fighting drugs. They should, however, be deployed to protect our borders. Unfortunately, nobody seems to care about that.
To: leadpenny
Like looking thru toilet-paper tubes. It doesn't help when you're focused on the ground, and you don't have a bunch of aircrew eyeballs keeping you out of trouble.
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01/23/2003 11:29:09 AM PST
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RedQuill
To: southland
RE post 7: The reason they have accidents is because they don't get proper flight time training. This has been the history of the military. X42 spent all training money on foreign intervention, and that may be what is going on now. Another excellent point. I was USN, and from the Gulf War on, I was lucky to get five hours of flying a week, and 5 hours of night time a month. Under GHWB, we started losing money for training & maintenance, but under Clinton we BLED.
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01/23/2003 11:42:49 AM PST
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RedQuill
To: RedQuill
Clarification: I should have said "AFTER the Gulf War".
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01/23/2003 11:44:16 AM PST
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RedQuill
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