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To: Pining_4_TX

“How about we get some control over this before buying yet another expensive trinket?”

If you are a “gun-nut” then do a bit of research on “Spooky” and “Puff the Magic Dragon”. These gunships have been “saving the bacon” for grunts since Vietnam.

Proven technology, just carrying more weapons. The C-130 is one of the best military acquisitions ever made. It has been an outstanding replacements for the C-47/C-117, which was the aircfart for the first “Spooky’s”.

“Saved my bacon” during an NVA on-line assault.


28 posted on 03/28/2017 8:24:48 PM PDT by BwanaNdege ("The church ... is not the master or the servant of the state, but the conscience" - Luther)
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To: BwanaNdege

Thank you for your service


39 posted on 03/28/2017 9:31:23 PM PDT by MattinNJ (I am optimistic about the USA for the first time in a decade)
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To: BwanaNdege

C-119?


53 posted on 03/29/2017 3:35:08 AM PDT by Tallguy
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