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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