On Fri, 13 Aug 2004 15:26:54 -0000, Jim wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Melchior FRANZ said: > > > * Peter L -- Saturday 14 August 2004 07:31: > > > > That's a bit euphemistic. > > > > > Yeah, I was a bit more polite than normal. Just put it down to not > > > knowing you guys yet... > > > > No problem. And I didn't want to make it sound as if you pardoned a > > criminal. :-) > > > > I just wanted to make clear that this was *not* "some unaware pilot" > > who "cuts the cable". He knew the cable was there. He wanted to fly > > under it and make a nice film, which was common practice in this > > unit at Aviano/Italy. Even their commander did it (and lost his > > command because of that). > > > > The cable was around 85 to 95 m AGL (~300 ft), and the minimum > > altitude allowed in this area was 150 m (~500 ft) at this time. This > > was afterwards raised to 600 m (~2000 ft). ..up here (Northern Norway), this was accepted by us (civilians and servicemen alike) as an evil neccessary to national security, until the Russians defeated and threw out the Soviet Union. ..then, the pro-EU types _continued_ this cover-up practice. The scale, methods etc of these cover-up stories is comparable to covering up genocide. ..and, the same people argued "we muuust join the EU because Norway is such a vulnerable little oil sheikhdom just next to the Russian Bear". Just who cancelled WWIII on us? > > Ref.: http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/9803/10/italian.crash.report/ > > The U.S. Marine motto is "The few, the proud", not "the most > intelligent" :-) > > I think "the few" is important. Unfortunately, it's hard to train > folks to be potential killers, and expect civility and common sense > to always prevail. ..in warfare, you wanna wound, not kill, a femur hit 2/3 up the thigh is the ideal, it's scary and hurts like hell, so you'll wet your pants, it'll put you the enemy GI in hospital for about half a year and out of action for the next half, and leaves no permanent damage, so it, and the alternatives, teaches you, my enemy GI, to move, predictably. ;-) ..and, just how many of your buddies carries your strecher, etc? ;-) Killing is counter productive in combat and warfare and Always a Sin. > We've got a training field nearby and this is a fairly rural area. I > can say that I haven't seen anything marginal come from there. The > private jets are another story. I'm amazed at the crap they get away > with over the Maine woods. ..scooping leaves as jet fuel? ;-) -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt... ;-) ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenarios always come in sets of three: best case, worst case, and just in case. _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
