On May 3, 8:35 pm, "Arved Sandstrom" wrote:
"Vince" wrote in message

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The hostility of the environment is clear. However Reconnaissance in an
environment where you cannot openly protect your aircraft and are not
establishing targets is not a battlefield.

Vince

???

That makes no sense.

AHS

Vince has been reading too many CYA accounts of the Cuban Missile
Crisis. There was a full scale assault planned and several variations,
including air strikes of up to 600 planes.

http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/di...ba/cuba013.htm