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To: FreedomCalls

” ...Marines’ senior officers who deserved the scorn for making their pilots sleep in foxholes next to their planes when there was perfectly acceptable hotel billets available nearby.”

Guns of Butter, bullets or billets. In Hackworth’s opinion, the Air Force had its spending priorities, and the Marine Corps apparently had slightly different priorities.


29 posted on 03/25/2008 5:23:40 AM PDT by flowerplough (Obama's pastor's chickens are coming home to roost.)
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To: flowerplough

Hack doesn’t know the square root of squat about flying. He doesn’t know 1/10th of what he thinks he knows about other subjects.


59 posted on 03/25/2008 6:40:07 AM PDT by Mr Rogers (Let's win Congress - the Presidency is lost!)
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