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"Fredric L. Rice" |
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29 Apr 2004 06:21:33 PM |
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"Charlie don't ski" -- Apocalypse Now for a New Age |
Some how this is amusing and invoked in my disjointed Yeti memory the
famous comment from Apocalypse Now "Charlie don't surf." We had to
take the beach away from Charlie because Charlie don't surf. Now the
American capitalist running dog can't ski without his howitzers.
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Army tells ski resorts it wants howitzers back
http://morningsun.net/stories/042804/usw_20040428033.shtml
RENO, Nev. (AP) - The U.S. military is demanding the return of five
howitzers that two Sierra Nevada ski resorts use to prevent avalanches,
saying it needs the guns for the fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Alpine Meadows and Mammoth Mountain received the artillery pieces on loan
from the Army and began using them last year to fire rounds into
mountainsides and knock snow loose.
But the ski resorts received word earlier this month that the Army's Tank
Automotive and Armaments Command at the Rock Island Arsenal in Illinois
needs the howitzers back immediately.
"I need to have them back in the troops' hands within 60 to 90 days," said
Don Bowen, the Army command's team leader in charge of the howitzers. "It's
a very short timeframe to get them serviceable and back into the theater in
southwest Asia. Afghanistan-Iraq is the immediate concern."
The ski resorts said they will comply.
"Given it's a war effort, their needs are greater than ours," said Larry
Heywood, Alpine Meadows director of mountain operations.
Howitzers are short-barreled cannons that can be pulled by a vehicle. They
fire three to 10 rounds per minute at a range of 9,600 to 12,330 yards.
Replacing one would cost around $1 million, Bowen said Tuesday.
The military lent two to Alpine Meadows and three to Mammoth Mountain.
Alpine Meadows and Mammoth Mountain are the only ski resorts in the nation
using the 119-A howitzer, the most modern model available, said Bob Moore,
a U.S. Forest Service specialist in Truckee, Calif. Other resorts have
older 105 mm howitzers.
Pam Murphy, senior vice president at Mammoth Mountain just east of Yosemite
National Park, said the military has provided the ski resort with
recoilless rifles and other guns for avalanche control for 30 years. The
howitzers are the most effective, Murphy said.
"It was designed to kill people, but it's a very valuable safety tool for
us," said Rachael Woods, a spokeswoman at Lake Tahoe's Alpine Meadows,
where seven people were killed in an avalanche in 1982.
Resort officials said they spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to
transport the guns, reimburse the Army for training and build firing
platforms.
But Murphy said she understood the Army's decision: "We're certainly at a
different place in the world than when we first got the guns."
The Forest Service said it is working to secure older howitzers for the ski
resorts, and the Army's Bowen said he is optimistic that will happen.
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Scientology tries to disrupt terrorist attacks relief efforts: http://www.cosvm.org/
Anti-War / Anti-Fascism protest: http://www.linkline.com/personal/frice/awp.htm
The United States: Freedom of religion -- as long as it's Christianity.
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| User: "Bob Dog" |
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| Title: Re: "Charlie don't ski" -- Apocalypse Now for a New Age |
10 May 2004 01:10:38 PM |
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(Fredric L. Rice) wrote in message news:<1093394cnnb9d11@corp.supernews.com>...
Some how this is amusing and invoked in my disjointed Yeti memory the
famous comment from Apocalypse Now "Charlie don't surf." We had to
take the beach away from Charlie because Charlie don't surf. Now the
American capitalist running dog can't ski without his howitzers.
"It was a good bore!"
(Pardon the pun about gun barrels.)
Bob Dog
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| User: "Fredric L. Rice" |
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| Title: Re: "Charlie don't ski" -- Apocalypse Now for a New Age |
10 May 2004 09:27:50 PM |
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(Bob Dog) wrote:
FredR@SkepticTank.REMOVE.ORG (Fredric L. Rice) wrote in message news:<1093394cnnb9d11@corp.supernews.com>...
Some how this is amusing and invoked in my disjointed Yeti memory the
famous comment from Apocalypse Now "Charlie don't surf." We had to
take the beach away from Charlie because Charlie don't surf. Now the
American capitalist running dog can't ski without his howitzers.
"It was a good bore!"
(Pardon the pun about gun barrels.)
<rofl!> I flashed back to Sigmund Freud's comments about "good bores."
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Scientology tries to disrupt terrorist attacks relief efforts: http://www.cosvm.org/
George W. Bush's latest policy: "No Child Left Untortured Act."
Reconvene the Nazi war crime trials at Nuremberg and put
Bush, Cheney, Rove, Rumsfeld, Ricem and Powell in prison.
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