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From: acoker@ub.d.umn.edu (alyce coker)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: marine mock landing
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Date: 22 Jul 89 04:44:42 GMT
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From: acoker@ub.d.umn.edu (alyce coker)


Today the marine corps. held a mock landing along a popular beach on
Lake Superior.  They had 1/2 dozen or so landing craft and "captured"
a public beach house.

The marines touted this as a recruitment tool.  Then some groups here
started objecting to it saying (and I'm heavily summarizing) "this
will glorify militarism and might harm the beach ecology".  Then the
beach landing was called off due to the protests.

Next, the vfw got into the fray, they threatened to call off their
convention here, (heavily summarizing) "if Duluth can't let our boys
have the landing and get training, then Duluth is not good enough for
our convention".

I am interested in what sort of public responses have you heard of in
other cities with similar recruitment excercises. 

Now note, I'm not trying to take sides and be political about this.
I'm just interested in how people react to the military.

This issue might be skirting the bounds of the list, so it might be
more appropriate if you email them to me.

[mod.note.   A slow news day, so I decided to run this one up the
flagpole and see who burns it 8-)    I agree completely with Alyce;
so much so, in fact, that I will not post any followups to sci.military.
Email only, please.  - Bill ]

alyce coker
acoker@ub.d.umn.edu
Duluth, Minn