Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/09/04

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Subject: [Leica] Re:katrina aid
From: clzeni at mindspring.com (Craig Zeni)
Date: Sun Sep 4 18:29:42 2005
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On Sep 4, 2005, at 8:37 PM, Douglas Sharp wrote:

> The story folded,
>
> The German Military Airbus was on a scheduled routine flight to 
> Pensacola (the Luftwaffe has a training unit there) and had problems 
> explaining that they had 10 tonnes of unscheduled cargo (one man 
> ration packs) on board, authorities being what they are, this had to 
> be cleared before allowing it to be unloaded. As usually happens in 
> military circles, this wasn't exactly a quick and simple task - the 
> impatient Germans unloaded it themselves, without being able to 
> produce the required paperwork.
>
> The plane should have been flying empty, then somebody had the bright 
> idea of filling it with emergency rations and , as we all know bright 
> ideas and initiative don't go down well in the forces anywhere, and 
> nobody had taken the time to fill out the forms in triplicate, 
> so......................

Proving once again that no good deed goes unpunished... :)


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