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Re: Whatever did we do before Mig welders?

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Subject: Re: Whatever did we do before Mig welders?
From: Bryan Savage <b.a.savage@earthlink.net>
Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2004 10:50:11 -0800
The APC 113 and the first version of the Bradley convinced me that the foot 
soldier's
worst enemy was the Pentagon.

Bryan


BWANA343@aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 12/21/2004 11:54:39 PM Eastern Standard Time,  
> Nt788@aol.com writes:
> 
> I once suggested the tanks be made of 
> cardboard, and let 20 guys  run with it, that way 19 expensive missiles could 
> go 
> right  through  
>  
> I drove an Armored Personnel Carrier, APC 113 in the Army, Germany,  1966-67. 
> They were made of lead-soft cast aluminum by, are ya ready?  American Can 
> Co..... The logic was, like Jack said, that large rounds would  pass right 
> through. At least that's the way the Motor pool Top  Sarge explained it to 
>us. It 
> was soooo soft, you could stick a  Ax into it and leave it there. By personal 
> experience I know they melted  real easy, too.
>  
> "religion, politics, and lubrication"
> I can't let this one slide anymore. I've been called sacrilegious,  
> politically apathetic, but never without lubrication in one form or  amother.
> Bob, good Aero is good lubrication, W
> ........and spelchek is an opinion, Sigmund.






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