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- From: ataylor@nmsu.edu (Nosy)
- Newsgroups: rec.guns
- Subject: Re: well-armed pilots...
- Message-ID: <ATAYLOR.93Jan22162601@gauss.nmsu.edu>
- Date: 23 Jan 93 01:55:21 GMT
- Sender: magnum@mimsy.umd.edu
- Organization: NMSU Computer Science
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- Approved: gun-control@cs.umd.edu
- In-Reply-To: ems@michael.apple.com's message of 16 Jan 93 01:30:19 GMT
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- <In article <1993Jan15.120529.6095@michael.apple.com> ems@michael.apple.com (E. Michael Smith) writes:
- < In article <JGREELY.93Jan14200040@morganucodon.cis.ohio-state.edu> jgreely@cis.ohio-state.edu (J Greely) writes:
- < #The local campus paper ran a front-page photo today (above the fold)
- < #of an F-14 pilot (Lt. Doug Higgins) checking his pistol before flying
- < #off into combat in Iraq. The pistol he's staring at (with his finger
- < #inside the trigger guard, sigh) is clearly an M1911A1. Colonel Cooper
- < #would be pleased...
-
- < I've noticed that the ground forces in Somalia (Marines? Army?) are
- < all shown packing Berettas, but the nightly news showed some Navy
- < footage. The guy patrolling the deck was carrying what looked like
- < an M14, and the Navy pilot getting ready to Rock & Roll was checking
- < his 1911-A1. Is the Navy more traditional than the Army, or just
- < likes Big Iron better, or just doesn't care as much about NATO
- < compatability, or what? Kinda makes you fond of the Navy ;-)
-
- As has been pointed out by others, Navy doesn't rate
- very highly on the "small-arms pecking order".
-
- One friend of mine toted a Garand on guard duty for
- Navy in the early 1970's, for example, when even
- Reserve units in the Army were trading their M14's
- for M16's. I believe that it had been converted to
- 7.62 NATO, however.
-
- A Navy game warden I met a while back from Norfolk,
- Virginia is still packing an issue M1911A1; he doesn't
- feel too deprived, though.
-
- During the Gulf War, all boarding parties on blockade
- duty were armed with M1911A1's, M14's and 870 shotguns.
- (With, from time to time, a Marine Cobra for "backup").
-
-
- Oddly enough, no resistance was encountered on any
- boardings....wonder why?
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