[ErnBatavia]

We live out near Twentynine Palms - the largest USMC base in the country; I've been reading about this exercise and am eagerly awaiting the distant boom-booms......lots of Camo vehicles on the roads out here these days.

A few years ago, you'd have sworn it was the Fourth of July - some massive exercise going on over the mountains.

Let's roll...

[mcook4]

We sharpen our tusks in times of peace to prepare for times of war...

[rabbitdog]

while this may be true, what are they going to say, something like we are doing this in preparing for our invasion in Iraq in a couple of weeks!!!