Beware the white gunboat!
Your gun had loads of power, Moose, but it took you days to get there. The
idea of air power is that it doesn’t – unless you’re a helicopter, of course,
which has limited range ;-)
Chris
> On 11 Mar 16, at 21:23, Moose <olymoose@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> I got to work a couple of days ago on a frosty morning to find this rather
>> mean-looking visitor installed next to the car park. I don’t know why it
>> was there, but it reminded us all of the serious business of the military.
>>
>> http://zone-10.com/tope2/main.php?g2_itemId=19711
>> <http://zone-10.com/tope2/main.php?g2_itemId=19711>
>> http://zone-10.com/tope2/main.php?g2_itemId=19714
>> <http://zone-10.com/tope2/main.php?g2_itemId=19714>
>
> Don't I recall you flying some pretty serious looking aircraft? :-)
>
> When I was on a Coast Guard Cutter in the Hawaiian Islands, we anchored off
> Lahaina, Maui so the Captain could take a boat in to have breakfast with a
> friend who lived there. The five inch gun in the turret on our foredeck was a
> far greater potential threat to a coastal city than anything an Apache
> carries.
>
> Sometimes a serious military visitor is just a convenient ride, for those
> with rank. We were painted white, so not so scary in aspect.
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