Phil, Seriously doubt that. It's SOP in all military organizations to destroy any equipment certain, or even highly likely, to fall into unfriendly hands. IF that happened it's the fault of the OIC on-site. Couple of WP grenades thrown into a chopper and it is fucking GONE.
On Nov 12, 9:30 am, Philobealo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > During the Clinton years soldiers were training with wooden dummy > rifles and the Carter years troops had to buy cleaning tools to > maintain their equipment. Remember the attempted Iran hostage rescue? > Due to cut backs the military had deficient equipment. > > "The first helicopter was grounded and abandoned in the desert with > equipment indicating a cracked rotor blade, and its crew picked up by > another helicopter that continued the flight. The second helicopter > abandoned the flight and returned to the Nimitz with reported erratic > instrumentation blamed on the highly elevated temperatures inside the > haboob. The third helicopter arrived at Desert One with a > malfunctioning primary hydraulics system and insufficient confidence > in the secondary (backup) hydraulics system to continue. The first and > third helicopters, which were abandoned, now serve with the Iranian > Navy." > > http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F0CE2DE1038F933A15756... --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more. -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
