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- From: pdchapin@unix.amherst.edu (PAUL D CHAPIN)
- Subject: Re: Really about the Gulf (was re: Somalia)
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- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 14:36:03 GMT
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- : > Or, if you don't
- : > agree with this reasoning, then perhaps we should allow Britain
- : > or Germany to have military bases in the US, right?
- :
- : Well, I have no problem with the Brits or Germans putting a base in. Good
- : for the economy, and all that. But I'll be hanged if I can see why they'd
- : need any here.
-
- Actually, the German air force used an air base in Texas for awhile.
- I don't know if they still do. Better weather than Europe allowed year round
- training. The Germans also trained their armor in Canada. Large open areas
- resembled what they would face in Western U.S.S.R. Again, I don't know if
- they still do this.
-
- Also, one Japanese government official - I think their defense minister -
- seriously proposed stationing the Japanese air force in the U.S. northwest.
- The idea was to get it out of range of Soviet fighters based in Siberia.
-