In Viet Nam, we sold off almost everything as scrap before the Final Collapse. I recall mountains of artillery brass that went to India and Pakistan. Every time I see some brass ashtray in a gift shop, I think of that.
While the cost of transporting all this gear back to the US is likely prohibitive, we could employ a lot of the Unemployed in rehabbing it.
Recall the pics of Hueys being shoved into the ocean off the decks of US Aircraft Carriers. Sad...
“...we could employ a lot of the Unemployed in rehabbing it....”
Are you kidding?
It would ‘clash’ with their gold chains, gold grills, ghetto-rat baseball caps, Caddy Escalades and ring-laden fingers, etc.
The companies that manufactured these products would scream their heads off if the suggestion to rehab it was seriously considered.
The companies that manufactured these products would scream their heads off if the suggestion to rehab it was seriously considered.