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Re: [OM] Nasty looking visitor

Subject: Re: [OM] Nasty looking visitor
From: ChrisB <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2016 07:09:03 +0000
Beware the white gunboat!

Your gun had loads of power, Moose, but it took you days to get there.  The 
idea of air power is that it doesn’t – unless you’re a helicopter, of course, 
which has limited range ;-)

Chris

> On 11 Mar 16, at 21:23, Moose <olymoose@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>> I got to work a couple of days ago on a frosty morning to find this rather 
>> mean-looking visitor installed next to the car park.  I don’t know why it 
>> was there, but it reminded us all of the serious business of the military.
>> 
>> http://zone-10.com/tope2/main.php?g2_itemId=19711 
>> <http://zone-10.com/tope2/main.php?g2_itemId=19711>
>> http://zone-10.com/tope2/main.php?g2_itemId=19714 
>> <http://zone-10.com/tope2/main.php?g2_itemId=19714>
> 
> Don't I recall you flying some pretty serious looking aircraft? :-)
> 
> When I was on a Coast Guard Cutter in the Hawaiian Islands, we anchored off 
> Lahaina, Maui so the Captain could take a boat in to have breakfast with a 
> friend who lived there. The five inch gun in the turret on our foredeck was a 
> far greater potential threat to a coastal city than anything an Apache 
> carries.
> 
> Sometimes a serious military visitor is just a convenient ride, for those 
> with rank. We were painted white, so not so scary in aspect.

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