At 12:37 PM 10/9/2001 -0500, Ronn wrote: >At 07:56 AM 10/9/01, you wrote: >>At 02:23 AM 10/9/2001 -0500, Ronn wrote: >>>><snipped> >>>>your friend is absolutely right; anything can be bombed if the >>>>attackers are willing to pay the price. >>>>btw, just to nitpick a bit ;-), when a Naval Aviator (please don't call >>>>them pilots) lands aboard a carrier, that is called a "trap", not an >>>>arrest. however, the cables stretched across the after part of the >>>>flight deck are called "arresting gear". >>>> >>>>john >>>>(flight deck troubleshooter, VAW-121 aboard USS Eisenhower, 1979-1980) >>> >>> >>>An "arrest" is what the SPs perform after a night of liberty . . . >>> >>>;-) >>been on both sides there ;-). >> >>john > > >Then you obviously know all there is to know about being "bombed", too . . . > >;-) been bombed, smashed, flattened and paralyzed (that ouzo is powerful stuff); of course that was then, and this is now.
john
