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From: gwh%tornado.Berkeley.EDU@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (George William Herbert)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: How to assault a tanker
Summary: HALO != good idea...
Message-ID: <1990Sep14.042754.1725@cbnews.att.com>
Date: 14 Sep 90 04:27:54 GMT
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From: gwh%tornado.Berkeley.EDU@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (George William Herbert)

In article <1990Sep6.154605.25887@cbnews.att.com> sysmgr@KING.ENG.UMD.EDU (Doug Mohney) writes:
>>Rather than trying to land a helo on the tanker deck, why not fly a
>>C-130 over at 30k feet and drop a SEAL team or two. They should have
>>no problems overcoming any typical crew, especially since a HALO drop
>>would provide no advance warning till they came over the gunwhales.
>
>Such faith in our armed forces! I saw "Navy SEALS" too and they didn't do
>that in the movie ;-) 

Pardon injection of some reality into this discussion, but the deck of a 
tanker is among the most cluttered surfaces on the face of this planet.  There
are pipes, walkways, machinery...you name it, it's not flat.  This makes it a 
hard enough place to land a helicopter, nonetheless a parachutist at night.


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