From: Cliff S (mtnbikinssgt@hotmail.com)
Date: Mon Aug 08 2005 - 18:59:26 PDT
Here is one for you all too............
After months of duty in Somalia (and elsewhere for that matter) we were told
to take out our bolts (rifle and pistol) so that we could hear the President
talk to us..........
Why did I have to do that again???? They trust me to assault a beach, but
not listen to the President.........Kinda funny too.......
Cliff Smith
SSgt USMC
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From: "Dick" <rertman@ix.netcom.com>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Subject: [MV] Military travel in 2005
Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2005 18:12:04 -0700
After reading this, I'm speechless!!!!!!!
The inmates are surely running the asylum!!!!!
Dick
Before deploying from Savannah, Georgia, to Iraq by a chartered airliner,
the troops of the 48th Brigade Combat Team, a National Guard unit, had to
go through the same security checks as any other passengers.
Lt. Col. John King, the unit's commander, told his 280 fellow soldiers
that FAA anti-hijacking regulations require passengers to surrender pocket
knives, nose hair scissors and cigarette lighters. "If you have any of
those things," he said, almost apologetically, "put them in this box now."
The troops were, however, allowed to keep their assault rifles, body
armour, helmets, pistols, bayonets and combat shotguns.
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