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To: MarvinStinson

Marines wpuld say “yeah that’s the frigging army.”


36 posted on 05/10/2018 7:34:56 AM PDT by longfellow (Bill Maher, the 21st hijacker.)
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To: longfellow

My late father-in-law was in the USAF and was an Xray technician and part of a rapid hospital response unit, like a MASH type thing the best he described it. Back in the 50’s the brass decides they need to do an emergency field exercise and actually deploy and set up operations. Part of it was for the USAF to do an airdrop in the equipment and the men on the ground would retrieve it and get the unit set up and functioning.

Well somewhere along the way either the pilot, weather and winds or something showed up with Mr. Murphy and Mr. SNAFU. My FIL was standing just outside the drop zone and saw the transports coming in and suddenly way before the equipment was supposed to drop out it comes and those brand new portable Xray machines and the rest of the hospital equipment went floating off into a vast Louisiana swamp. They never did retrieve any of it. He never heard who got their butts chewed for that expensive mishap.


65 posted on 05/10/2018 12:23:05 PM PDT by sarge83
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