Well they're painting trucks tan color again here at Texas millitary
bases.

Stan

On Fri, 21 Sep 2001 22:54:52 -0400 "Horace K. Sawyer" <hksawyer@catt.com>
writes:
> 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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