So now the silly bastads want to bomb Padre Island?

[fgarvb1]

As one might think think Gov. Perry is not happy with the ideal.

No shit! I've camped out there and it's a very pretty place.

Can someone tell me why, with all of our resources the USA can't
take a couple of hunderd old ships clean out the toxic stuf. haul them to a good location sink them, cover them with sand and use that damn man made island for a target?

We have the money, the people and the ships. Pput them to work!

 

[KillerMuffin]

Actually, the Texas government wants those "Silly Bastards" to bomb a dead area of the coastline of Texas. The "Silly Bastards" refused to do so, since the water environment surrounding that particular stretch of coastline is protected.

Perhaps you ought to research into the uses of those "Silly Bastards" and why we must not only have them, but have them properly trained.

Signed,

The Retired Silly Bastard.

 

[crystalhunting]

Its Political shortsighteness as usual....This is normal crud for Texas unfortunately.





CH

 

[fgarvb1]

Km, you are not silly nor can you be mistaken for any sort of bastard!

There is no dead part of the texas coastline. Only places without people. I heard that part of the king's ranch was being thought of.

It does not really matter, leaving unexploded bombs and stuff laying around texas is NOT a good ideal! To many fools and to many pick up trucks and other equipment around here.
It would be only a matter of time before some cop stopped a truck and found a five hundred pounder in the back of it!

I belive in training, but don't you think the armed forces could build their own place? then they won't have to listen to people like me bitch about it.

 

[KillerMuffin]

The armed forces can't afford it.

Almost anyone E4 and below with dependents qualifies for foodstamps. That comprises at least a third of the military.

An estimated one quarter of all military assests are no longer in service. Another estimated quarter of all military assests are listed as in service, but have been cannibalized for their parts and are no longer in servicable condition.

The standing requirements for readiness has been that the armed forces MUST be capable of fighting two major wars at any given time. The armed forces have eroded so much in personnel and equipment that that readiness requirement will shortly be reduced to one major war at any given time.

Yes, the military has an astonishing large looking budget. However, the cost of recruiting personnel, paying personnel, training personnel, deploying personnel, outfitting personnel, purchasing equipment, supplies, and munitions, maintaining equipment, supplies, and munitions, repairing equipment, supplies, and munitions, and deploying equipment, supplies, and munitions is greater than the size of the budget. Any idea how much an air craft carrier costs? Let alone maintaining and manning it? There are towns in this country with less personnel.

There has to be an island somewhere that we could use where people don't live, endangered critters don't live, and ord could be dropped. Or so you'd think.