"Walt BJ" wrote in message
om...

intergranular corrosion late in life. Case in point - I have heard the
Okinawa 102s were scrapped there rather than brought back to the
States because of the results of the vicious sea-salt environment
there...any body know about this?

Anecdotal only, a guy I worked with on Guam was on Okinawa when the Deuce
came off alert, if I remember the story correctly, they had put all the jets
on alert for some big international emergency(USS Pueblo?), when the order
came to download, the planes were downloaded and cut up.