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To: ansel12

“Like the Air Force?”

in WW2, my dad said it was the Navy. He was Army Air Corps and they would rob the Navy stores on Okinawa to get the good stuff. It helped to have a crane.

I was playing cards with a guy who just got out of the military. He complained about the low pay until I pointed out the $1,500+ stereo we were listening to in his house. Top of the line Sansui he got while in the service.


83 posted on 12/17/2023 1:51:08 PM PST by AppyPappy (Biden told Al Roker "America is back". Unfortunately, he meant back to the 1970's)
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To: AppyPappy

That was when the Air guys were in the Army, they will never suffer like that again or die in those numbers again.


95 posted on 12/17/2023 2:10:29 PM PST by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: AppyPappy; ansel12

Every military unit thinks the other guys have it easy.

My father was a combat engineer in the WWII European theater. They would have to sneak past the front line, secure a beachhead on a river, and construct a bridge by the time the front line caught up with them. As the infantry passed by over the bridge, they would accuse the engineers of digging ditches while they fought the war.


106 posted on 12/17/2023 2:46:32 PM PST by Jeff Chandler (THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
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