How true. My dad was in the Philippines at the end of the war and had to stay
and extra 6 months. He was one of the officers supervising the disposal of
equipment. Washington didn't want anything returned to the US. American
business didn't want the stuff on the surplus market competing with civilian
products. The put new and used planes, tanks, trucks, jeeps, buildings,
ice cream machines -- everything on barges and took the stuff out to an
underwater canyon about 12,000 feet deep. The same thing was happening
all over the Pacific Theater of Operations.
Bryan
Dave Dahlgren wrote:
> the next time someone complains about government waste they need to be
> reminded of deals like from the past.. the right time to makeany long term
> investment like this when something is old and obsolete but not so old to be
> a classic..
> dave
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