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In article <40F7F06A.73C7519C@usa.net>, copolo@usa.net wrote:
> Everybody seems to be an expert on George W. Bush,
> 
> But no one can us what John "Fuck'um" Kerry has achieived in his life ?
> 
> The only thing John "Fuck'um" Kerry did is to married rich ugly women......
> A fuckin' GIGOLO.
> 

Well he did acheive his military service with no doubts as to whether he
was ever AWOL or not.  Dubya can't say that - it is a shame that those
records were distroyed.

> 
> 
> Dweezil Dwarftosser wrote:
> 
>> Somebody wrote:
>> >
>>
>> > PS - since this post relates to Jim Jones and since it was also posted
>> > to alt.military (and I don't have a clue why the OP did so), here is
>> > a tidbit of interesting info that is not exactly commonly known. Does
>> > anybody out there realize that Jim Jones and his followers actually
>> > managed to cause a military cargo aircraft to become haunted?
>> > It is true... according to USAF flight crew members back in the
>> > early1980s, C-141 tail number 50220 is the plane that carried
>> > all the dead bodies out of Guiana after Jim Jones' death party.
>> > Before that time this aircraft, based at Charleston AFB, SC was
>> > a smooth running plane, but afterwards it began to break down
>> > so frequently that it almost became legendary. I was a witness to
>> > this fact because at the time I worked on Ascension Island, South
>> > Atlantic some 6000 odd miles from Charleston where most of our
>> > supply aircraft runs originated. The guys at Charleston would work
>> > on the plane until they thought they had it fixed, then send it out
>> > on the long flight down to Ascension to test it out. More than half
>> > of the time, this plane would end up breaking down on Ascension
>> > or along the way and would have to go back to Charleston for yet
>> > another round of repairs. Most of the time, all of the other 141's
>> > ran smoothly and only occasionally had breakdowns, but not this
>> > plane. Anytime that one of us was due to go on vacation and saw
>> > that plane sitting on the tarmac, somebody would end up saying,
>> > "Oh no... your plane is '220... you will never get there on time"!!!
>>
>> You are aware that no one in the Air Force ever uses the
>> term "tarmac" to indicate any portion of the flightline,
>> ramp, parking pad, taxiway, runway, or anything else?
>>
>> Bozo reporters, on the other hand,  evidently love to use the
>> word, thinking it sounds as though it were airfield-related
>> jargon.
>>
>> It is possible that there might have been some military
>> folks using the term during the early days of World War I.
>> That's about the time that the (British-invented) "tarmac"
>> (short for "Tar Maccadam") paving method was eclipsed by
>> more modern types.  Tarmac was mostly a mixture of tar, coal
>> cinders, and ash, providing a very rough-grained but
>> reasonably weatherproof surface - more lasting than the
>> plain gravel roadways it repaved.
>>
>> Bottom line: this is NOT a first-hand account... though it
>> is widely known that the Jim Jones mortuary flights made the
>> aircraft used for purpose STINK for years afterward.
>>
>> No one who uses the term "tarmac" has ever spent any real time
>> on a flightline.
>>
>> DD - former Msgt, USAF
> 


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