-------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Add your name to the CLEAN GOA INITIATIVE | | | | by visiting this link and following the instructions therein | | | | http://shire.symonds.net/pipermail/goanet/2005-October/033926.html | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- You obviously do not keep yourself abreast of the massive rescue and relief efforts carried out by the Indian Armed Forces over the past year to help our people who have suffered due to natural calamities. Here are a few examples. 1. Immediately after the tsunami, the Navy mobilised a huge task force to render assistance to the people in the A&N islands Tamil Nadu and Andhra. Thereafter immense help was rendered to neighbouring countries like the Maldives, Sri Lanka and Indonesia. For further details visit the link <http://indiannavy.nic.in/press05.htm>. 2. During the monsoons, a few months ago, a massive fire broke out at the processing platform Bombay High North. All ONGC helicopters were grounded at Juhu due to flooding and foul weather. The Navy immediatly deployed 6 ships with organic air capability. These Navy Helicopters flying in awfully bad conditions from rolling and pitching decks, saved hundreds of men from certain death. 3. Even as I write this, Navy Helicopters and Navy Divers are rescueing people from a crashed train which has fallen into a river in Andhra Pradesh.
Instead of spewing out anti Navy Thrash regularly on this forum, you should be getting down on your knees and thanking our gallant men in uniform who are risking their lives on a daily basis. regards, Gilbert Menezes Message: 6 Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2005 13:39:06 +0530 From: "Philip Thomas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [Goanet] SWORDS TO PLOUGHSHARES To: <[email protected]> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Recently Adm Arun Prakash wrote a piece in FINANCIAL EXPRESS lamenting the fact that money which could be usefully spent in development had to be allocated for building the nation's military strength. He felt that the latter was a must. But he grandly offered to convert "swords into ploughshares" .. as soon as Utopia arrived. My response to this rhetorical gesture was that the military must be able to make the switch in day to day matters too e.g. in emergencies like earthquakes, tsunamis, oil spills, major communal riots etc etc. This woukld keep the "swords to ploughshares to swords" mechanism well oiled.
