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From: rxtgep@minyos.xx.rmit.OZ.AU (Glen Pill)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: A-12, Australian Carrier? A-4's..
Message-ID: <1990Dec21.025023.9343@cbnews.att.com>
Date: 21 Dec 90 02:50:23 GMT
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From: rxtgep@minyos.xx.rmit.OZ.AU (Glen Pill)

>From article <1990Dec20.015931.28940@cbnews.att.com>, by disc3c1@jetson.uh.edu:

> Can anybody Tell me, will Australia get
> an Aircraft carrier EVER??? I wanna be a Carrier Pilot, and I have the option
> of staying in the US or goin gback to Australia, but if Australia has no 
> carriers, it may be a bit hard to fly of a Carrier that isnt there.. Lastly,
> is Australia getting its A-4 Skyhawks back from New Zealand???

Australia was in the process of getting a carrier full of harriers back in
1984 (around that time) but before we got it the Falklands was invaded and
you can guess where the carrier and harriers went then.


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