In article .com,
"John Martin" wrote:

Nick Hull wrote:
In article .com,
"John Martin" wrote:

Nick Hull wrote:

Plus, once you sign up you can be recalled later in life for any
purpose. An office mate of mine had a father who had retired from being
a B-52 pilot and was over 65. He was recalled to be a helicopter pilot
in Vietnam and mentioned he was the youngest in his survival school
class. McNamara calculated it was cheaper to have them killed than to
contimue paying pensions.

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Nick, you sure your buddy wasn't pulling your leg or maybe stretching
things a bit? Hard to imagine the military recalling a 65 year old
fixed wing pilot to have him fly choppers in combat. And it's also
hard to imagine that there would have been older people in a survival
class. How old was the oldest? 75, maybe?

Not saying that it couldn't be true, just that it seems awfully
unlikely.

John Martin


I didn't check into the details myself, but my office mate was generally
truthful and I had heard similiar stories from other directions.


Nick:

I've heard stories that over 200 million slaves were thrown overboard
in the Atlantic by slavers - so many that sharks still prowl the slave
routes today.

An obvious exageration, like 6 million killed elsewhere.

It was claimed just recently in this newsgroup that around 1905 the US
railroad industry averaged 100 employees killed per day.

I just heard that one on the history channel. It sounded high to me but
they showed a lot of train wrecks.

I'm not trying to be funny here, and I'm not saying that what your
office mate told you couldn't be true. My only point is that while it
is to me more believable than the two stories above, it is - again, to
me - in the realm of myth.

Fo you it's myth. For me, I knew the person directly.

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