Comments on: Semper Fly: Marines in Space

By: Anderson

Anderson — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 15:06:04 +0000

If they can send *one* Marine into space ....

(Sorry. Filling in for my dad, who was a great teaser of Marines; his business card for a while listed 20-odd specialties on the back, including "Marines Tutored.")

By: R Gardner

R Gardner — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 07:11:50 +0000

This sounds like another General Cartwright proposal. CINCSTRAT. Weird things come out of Omaha.

This reminds me of all the ballistic missile proposals I've seen lately that don't consider where the first and second stages fall.

By: yetanotherjohn

yetanotherjohn — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 23:02:30 +0000

McGhee,

You may have hit on something. But instead of shipping the transport back, lets ship the troops to the hot spot. And don't pinch pennies, lets ship them overnight so they don't have to spend to long in the box. We can use Fedex and UPS so the bad guys never know which way we will be coming. And of course we can include a pre-paid return label to get the guys back. Fedex and UPS have already got all the overflight rights sewn up.

By: Cernig

Cernig — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 22:48:47 +0000

Obviously, they still have to get the bugs out of the concept. Regards, C

By: McGehee

McGehee — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 21:13:11 +0000

Given that the price tag per transport is likely to be large, does he cover how we get the transport back to base?

FedEx.

By: yetanotherjohn

yetanotherjohn — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 20:37:26 +0000

Given that the price tag per transport is likely to be large, does he cover how we get the transport back to base?