Posted on 11/24/2014 8:53:08 AM PST by Cry if I Wanna
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Marine Corps announced its plan to spend billions of dollars to research, develop, and build a new amphibious vehicle that will be canceled just before implementation, sources confirmed Thursday.
Dubbed the Amphibious Combat Vehicle (ACV), the new project is slated to be finished in 2020 and canceled in 2018. The ACV is meant to replace the current Amphibious Assault Vehicle (AAV), known among Marines as Amtraks or “Floating Coffins,” which have been used for more than 40 years to take troops from ship to the bottom of the sea floor.
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Should I know this is sarcasm?
Good satire has you thinking it might actually be true.
New Jim Thompson rule: Mark all titles as Satire because sometimes they are taken for real. Not all satire is so outlandish as to be obvious.
I’d like to avoid posting it as satire but those seem to be the rules. DuffleBlog has good satire stories and some not so good. Everyone must judge on their own.
Your problem was since this dealt with government this story seemed more plausible than not.
But I got a good laugh.
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