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To: SLB

And those expensive jets can’t hang around long. Waiting for needed support can make for a real pucker factor.


9 posted on 06/18/2005 5:52:43 AM PDT by R. Scott (Humanity i love you because when you're hard up you pawn your Intelligence to buy a drink.)
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To: R. Scott

Unless you can figure out how to make them sail on land, the BB's would have been of zero use in the two most recent conflicts.

Not to mention obsolete power plants, the fact that the ships aren't configured for modern electronic gear, and on and on and on.

These ships for all practical purposes became obsolete on December 7, 1941. They're hideous white elephants. For the money--and it would take a LOT of money to refurbish and maintain them--there are any number of things we can buy that would make a much greater contribution to the nation's defense.


32 posted on 06/18/2005 7:03:00 AM PDT by kms61
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