[extropy-chat] unidirectional thrust

[Joseph Bloch]

Completely irrelevant to the topic, but a fun anecdote nonetheless...

When I was in the USAF reserves, stationed at McGuire AFB, NJ, having 
completed my stint as a full-timer, I was frequently put up in a hotel 
that had been built just outside the base, at the Air Force's expense, 
of course.

The reason was that the Pentagon forbade the base from building enough 
housing on-base to accomodate the large numbers of reservists that would 
be on-duty on the weekends. They could only have as many beds as the 
annual average required; not the number required at the maximum demand. 
This despite the fact that the base argued (correctly, as far as I can 
tell) that over the long-term the cost of putting us up in the hotels 
far exceeded the cost of building more dorms.

So, yeah, I'll tell the USAF it's wrong. Maybe not on this specific 
topic, but they're hardly infallible. And don't even get me started on 
Rolling Thunder...

;-)

Joseph

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Mike Lorrey wrote:

>Dig in, and tell the USAF it is wrong.
>