[Ciaphas Cain]

The Allied Expeditionary Forces created entire freakin' artificial harbors to unload their equipment from at Normandy.

Eighty years later much of the Mulberry infrastructure is still there to be seen.

Meanwhile modern American engineering cannot emplace a simple pier without it self-destructing practically overnight.

[hinckley buzzard]

Bedside which, that
“military boat” looks like an old rusty garbage scow. What ever happened to “if it doesn’t move, paint it?”