(OT) : "I remember Christmas of 1968 sitting on a Gunboat in ...
 

On Nov 19, 4:10*pm, "Brenda Ann"
wrote:
"Doug Reese" wrote in message

...
On Nov 19, 6:56 am, wrote:

Those SWIFT Boats in Vietnam, originally, they were used for ferrying
offshore oil rig people back and forth to and from offshore oil rigs.So
says the article athttp://airbornecombatengineers.typepad.com
cuhulin

Interesting, but . . . that link doesn't woth for me . . . .

Doug Reese

Try this one instead...

http://airbornecombatengineer.typepad.com/

Thanks, but I did what I should have done earlier . . . . . Google
it :)

Turns out they were originally used to ferry people to/from oil rigs,
but not in Vietnam, in the Gulf of Mexico.

It was that type of boat, or something reasonably close, that the Navy
had someone build when they realized they needed a boat with that type
(use in shallow water) of capability.

Doug Reese

(OT) : "I remember Christmas of 1968 sitting on a Gunboat in...
 

Doug Reese wrote:
On Nov 19, 4:10 pm, "Brenda Ann"
wrote:
"Doug Reese" wrote in message

...
On Nov 19, 6:56 am, wrote:

Those SWIFT Boats in Vietnam, originally, they were used for ferrying
offshore oil rig people back and forth to and from offshore oil rigs.So
says the article athttp://airbornecombatengineers.typepad.com
cuhulin
Interesting, but . . . that link doesn't woth for me . . . .

Doug Reese

Try this one instead...

http://airbornecombatengineer.typepad.com/

Thanks, but I did what I should have done earlier . . . . . Google
it :)

Turns out they were originally used to ferry people to/from oil rigs,
but not in Vietnam, in the Gulf of Mexico.

It was that type of boat, or something reasonably close, that the Navy
had someone build when they realized they needed a boat with that type
(use in shallow water) of capability.

Doug Reese

Are you sure you're not talking about beach landers evolving from swamp
boats?

Setting Your Clocks Back
 

On Nov 16, 12:04*pm, BobS wrote:
wrote:
DXAce was in the U.S.Navy.
What have YOU ever done for America?
cuhulin

Big deal! *I was in the Navy and in my opinion (worth very little) he
acts like an arrogant little kid who throws punches sitting behind his
keyboard. *He and his asshole buddies on RRS just love all the attention
they get when they sling the mud. Can't wait for them to hop all over this.

Bob

BobS,

In the Interest of Attention Getting Rhetoric . . .

I Thank You and All Veterans For Your Service :
God Bless You One and All - amen.

mud-slingers-r-us ~ RHF {Grand Exalted AssHole}