Now that you mention it, I remember, in about 1987 ( I remember the
date  because I was working in the U.S. Attorney's Office) that there
desert tan tanks stranded on the side of the road one day on my way from
work.  I thought it odd because when I was growing up, the threat always
seemed to be a European ground war with Soviet tanks pouring into West
Germany, and NATO trying desperately to stop them, ultimately having to use
Minuteman's with nukes to halt the onslaught.  That was the scenario
feared, anyway.

hk

At 07:25 PM 9/21/01 -0500, Stan Wilder wrote:
>In 1987 I was in Houston Texas at a company that specializes in thread
>design (like pipe thread) . They had about thirty complete and bare
>castings for helicopter refueling valves lying around in various levels
>of assembly.
>They were testing existing threads and designing improved threads for the
>refueling valves.
>I noticed that all of the castings for the valves said US Air Force on
>the castings and I commented that the Air Force colors were Blue, the
>Army; Olive Green, The Navy; Gray and I didn't know about the Marines
>color for ground equipment but it seemed strange for all of these
>refueling valves to be Sand colored.
>The company owner casually mentioned "Oh. We're going to have a desert
>war.", and we sure did in 1991.
>
>Stan Wilder
>
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