Dan/W4NTI wrote:
"K4YZ" wrote in message

Marky just likes to argue Steve. Don't confuse him with the facts.

Quite correct.

I especially enjoyed the part about the Cuban missle Crisis and the
Commander at Midway......well you know.

Well...Coming from a "guy" who was "drafted" at age 7 or 8 and
forced to remain on active duty despite being an admitted deviant and
pathological liar, I don't find ANYthing that comes out of Mark's
"mouth" surprising anymore...ESPECIALLY since he's admitted what goes
IN his mouth....

And Dee is correct, at least that is how I remember how it went in 1962.
Shortly after the Russians pulled there missles out of Cuba we removed the
obsolete Jupiters. No real loss since the Submarine missles and the new
Atlas ICBM were coming or were already on line. Not to mention the lighter
Hydrogen bombs available for use by the B-52 SAC Bombers.

The story behind the Jupiter missles was nothing more than a "face
saving" exercise for the Soviets. It allowed them to say, "See, we did
get something out of the whole deal..." when in fact all we did was
change from fixed base missles to seaborne.

It's just one more "Markism" we can point at him and laugh about,
Dan!

73

Steve, K4YZ