Posted on 07/28/2014 2:53:46 PM PDT by artichokegrower
The planes were mostly 747s, and the escapees knew how to use toilets.
The latter flights were C-141s loaded to the max with rice farmers.
Even if they did know how to use a toilet, it wouldn't have mattered.
The refugees were strapped with cargo straps across their waists, around 10 to 20 across, sitting on the floor of the cargo planes.
They were packed in as tightly as possible to get as many to freedom as possible.
They were not allowed to go to the one toilet, as it wasn't known if some Viet-Cong might be mixed in.
I still remember the stench of those planes. You could smell them from over a mile away on the flightline (on Guam).
As an Air Transportation Specialist, we only had to be in contact with the planes for a brief period of time.
I pitied the poor maintenance people and flight crews who had to work on them.
I read a book by a WWII American POW who had been captured in the Philippines and sent to Japan as a slave labor late in the war. The Japs had them working near some kind of factory, and they were all sick, emaciated, etc. When they urinated, out in the open, the local Japanese women would ridicule the POWS with that comment.
Turd world habits
It is a sanitation problem. If the parents don’t have the child use diapers and the child can’t use the toilet, they don’t need to be on an airplane.
If the kid's been getting fiber it probably was ;)
I lived in apartments that rented to off the boat Chinese. The kids popped squats in the parking lot on a regular basis.
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