[Blood of Tyrants]

True. But when I was in the Navy, our plane stopped to refuel at an old base near Chicago on the way home from a month long work up when an admiral decided that his trip was more important than ours, (his plane had had a mechanical malfunction that grounded the plane). So he simply ordered all 100 of us and all our gear (a LOT of gear) off the plane and took it.

Perhaps his mission was more important but with it being Super Bowl Sunday, 1986, I suspect that he simply didn't want to miss the game. If his mission WAS more important, it would have been nice if he had at least sent his aid to apologize.

[Lacey]

My Army husband got stuck in west Africa two years ago after a humanitarian mission because the Gore campaign needed the planes that were supposed to pick them up. I was so ticked I contacted all the news networks; Fox was the only one that followed up on it and mentioned it.