From: SimonC@d... (Simon Campbell-Smith)
Date: Tue, 3 Sep 1996 03:20:40 -0400
Subject: RE: SSNs, SSKs, Aircraft etc (was Tours)
I don't know if this is a world wide truth, but it is in UK
In the army the Officers send the men off to die
In the navy the men and officers go off to die
However only the air force do the men send the officers off to die
Hence if you are going to enlist join the air force
I know that junior officers go over the top and that there are enlisted
aircrew, but I think the above just about holds true!
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From: FTGZG-L[SMTP:FTGZG-L@bolton.ac.uk]
Sent: 03 September 1996 20:12
To: FTGZG-L
Subject: Re: SSNs, SSKs, Aircraft etc (was Tours)
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> Joseph L. Haygood wrote:
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On the other hand, I'd rather be in a nice, safe submarine than trussed
up like a turkey, wearing a belly chute, on a P-3C Orion. Or, for that
matter, bouncing around the aluminium box of an M-113A1 LSV trundling
through the bush.
Been there, done that. Join a service, see the world - but in Defence
Industry, they don't even give you a uniform. Right now, I'm working in a
bunker deep below the ground, somewhere in Our Nation's Capital. Just been
informed 2 people there have TB, so I'm going for a test on Friday.
Isn't thread creep wonderful?
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