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Originally Posted by Mr Quatro
WWII is over ... we won't be suckered into another useless war that uses tanks and two weeks to get there by sea ... the Air Force has a plan to deliver the goods, but only if it is a small unprotected country  |
Back in the 1980s when I drove ski vans for the first time, in the summer we would take on any jobs that came our way. One day the Air Force was conducting operations at the old airfield at Wendover, Utah. For some reason or other their ground transport from Salt Lake Airport to Wendover ended up having to be used for some other purpose, and they hired two or three of our buses to transport the men and their bags, plus a van to carry the senior officers. I was driving the van, and I couldn't resist asking the man at the top: "So, when you have to go into another country for an emergency, is it the new procedure to fly into the nearest airport and hire local buses to get to your new base?"
He just grinned and said "Oh, you'd be surprised."