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To: WhiskeyX

The story was told long ago, of a UH-60 pilot with the 101st in Egypt. He had a Muslim co-pilot riding side-seat with him one particular day.

While giving the Muslim a chance at the controls, they had an in-flight malfunction, and started losing altitude. The American starts to tell the Muslim how to deal with the problem, but to his horror, the Muslim folds his hands across his chest, saying “Allah wills it, we die now.”

The American shouts “SCREW DAT!” and grabs the controls and dead-sticks the aircraft to a safe landing.


37 posted on 05/09/2013 6:38:58 AM PDT by Old Sarge (My "KMA List" is growing daily...)
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To: Old Sarge

YIn my own example, it was a Saudi pilot, and in another incident it was an Eqyptian pilot piloting a Sukhoi. The Army has a report about the experiences of trainers teaching Arabs the use and maintenance of U.S. tanks a few decades ago. The officers were obstructing the efforts of U.S. instructors attempting tto train the Arab enlisted personnel. The officers kept all vital information iin their own personal hands so the enlisted personnel would be dependent upon thee officer. The officer, however, typically made himself absent and unavailable to the enlisted personnel who needed the information to maintain and operate the equipment. Consequently, the equipment was typically in a poor state of maintenance and not combat effective.


40 posted on 05/09/2013 6:49:16 AM PDT by WhiskeyX (The answer is very simple and easy to understand economics. The U.S. Treasury is printing vast)
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