"Red Rider" wrote in message
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I have been watching this thread since it started. In fact I have
checked
this newsgroup daily since about the time it got started, but I
haven't post
much in the last couple of year, because it is very very seldom about
anything that has the least to do with naval aviation.

I don't think much of the thread, no matter who supports what, or
whichever
side they support. However there is one thing I would like to add, and
that
is this.

Pechs you said 'F-102's were the aircraft least likely to go to SE
Asia'.
Wrong. They (and F-104's were in fact deployed to SE Asia to support
operations during the Vietnam conflict (War, Firex, TrainEx or
whatever you
want to call it). And one F-102 was shot down by a MiG. This loss to a
MiG
wasn't a maybe, or we think. It was a loss to a MiG confirmed by the
USAF.
There were also a few (not many, but a few) reserve/guard units or
detachments, that did go over there also.

As for the rest of this thread, it doesn't mean sh*t. The Vietnam war
is
long over and done with. We already had a self-confessed draft-dodger,
and
liar, serve two terms as President. Incidentally he was also a
self-confessed womanizer, and not the first president who was, he just
got
caught. Heck he wasn't even the first president to be caught lying.

Actually I don't have much use for those that weren't there, or in
danger of
going there, making any kind of judgments about Vietnam one way or the
other.

And I'll add this well for all the good it will do; which isn't much.

RAM has just about been ruined by the idiots over there espousing their
"political" preferences and using the group to argue political comment
back and forth. Most of the pilots and the interested aviation people
have either gone completely or post very little over there any more. I
personally don't even bother with it any longer.

RAM has become a garbage dump for clever people who have discovered that
by posting political crap on a military newsgroup, they can sucker
reaction answering posts, and unfortunately it's a VERY viable
technique. It WORKS!

And if the people around here who have worked and slaved for years
making RAMN the fine newsgroup that it is don't quit this f*****g
political bull ****, this group will end up in the same GD dumper!
Dudley Henriques
International Fighter Pilots Fellowship
Commercial Pilot/ CFI Retired

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