Plosi One

C Booth wrote :
You should have witnessed the Clintons vist to Jackson.

I did. Several times. One of the more ridiculous sights was a
Marine CH-46 helicopter parked at West Yellowstone airport (I was
camped there). I thought it was Marine 1, the presidential transport,
since it had a spotless presidential paint job. It wasn't. After
hanging around with the crew for awhile, they showed me what they had
inside. A 42 ft. luxury RV.

The whole purpose of this venture was to provide a presidential photo
op. The president wanted to look like an average citizen, driving his
family through Yellowstone Park in an RV. Here's how it really
worked. The actual Marine 1 helo would fly the President and his
family from Jackson, to an undisclosed landing site in Yellowstone.
The Marine copter carrying the RV would fly to the same location to
meet them. Both helos unloaded their cargo and the President and his
family drove a couple of miles in the RV to where the press was
waiting. Big speech about the wonders of taking your family to a
National Park, then they drove a few miles back to the landing site and
loaded everything up. Marine 1 flew back to JAC and "RV 1" flew back to
WYS to await its next "mission".

I was disgusted, to say the least, that my tax dollars were being
spent on a sham like that. Fortunately, I'm a cynic and my
disappointment didn't last long. It's par for the course for
politicians of any stripe these days.

John Galban=====N4BQ (PA28-180)


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