Fences are a WASTE OF MONEY if you don't defend them with lethal force. If nobody is there to guard the fence then the wetbacks will climb over, dig under, cut a hole through or disassemble and STEAL entire sections of the fence and then waltz across the border at will. So in reality a fence does NOTHING unless backed up by the credible threat of lethal force. And if you have a CREDIBLE threat of lethal force in place along the border....YOU DON'T NEED A FENCE.
Toe poppers, anti tank and anti personnel. The more I think of it we should call in the Navy Seabees to push Mexico all the way to Guatemala leaving it no bigger than the Gaza Strip
:) I remember asking Steve the same thing the first time I met him after Vietnam and he said that a certain percentage of the top graduates could pick their service and since his father was in the Marines for *40 years, he picked that. He does the '65 class obituaries, but only saw the below, so just sent him an email to see if he has more information. Thanks.
* Talk about getting your worth out of retirement: After serving 40 years, he lived another 40 and his wife died but a few years ago well into her nineties. :)
AIR SUPPORT Some of our classmates provided important aerial support to us and other soldiers and marines. While serving as a fighter pilot in the Marine Corps, Ron Butterfield flew the F4B with Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 115. He wrote, “I flew 337 sorties during those 13 months.”92 http://www.west-point.org/class/usma1965/ClassPoop/History/VN_Years3-1-1.pdf
Fences are a WASTE OF MONEY if you don't defend them with lethal force.
ReplyDeleteIf nobody is there to guard the fence then the wetbacks will climb over, dig under,
cut a hole through or disassemble and STEAL entire sections of the fence and then
waltz across the border at will. So in reality a fence does NOTHING unless backed up by the credible threat of lethal force. And if you have a CREDIBLE threat of lethal force in place along the border....YOU DON'T NEED A FENCE.
As I've mentioned countless times in quoting my cousin, a West Point graduate, Marine Aviator with 120 missions over North Vietnam, Claymores.
DeleteToe poppers, anti tank and anti personnel. The more I think of it we should call in the Navy Seabees to push Mexico all the way to Guatemala leaving it no bigger than the Gaza Strip
ReplyDeleteMaybe we could do Gaza and they Mexico. :)
DeleteBrock, there is a story in your comment. How did a West Point graduate become a
ReplyDeleteMarine Aviator? Possible I'm sure but certainly not the normal track.
:) I remember asking Steve the same thing the first time I met him after Vietnam and he said that a certain percentage of the top graduates could pick their service and since his father was in the Marines for *40 years, he picked that. He does the '65 class obituaries, but only saw the below, so just sent him an email to see if he has more information. Thanks.
Delete* Talk about getting your worth out of retirement: After serving 40 years, he lived another 40 and his wife died but a few years ago well into her nineties. :)
AIR SUPPORT
Some of our classmates provided important aerial support to us and other soldiers and marines. While serving as a fighter pilot in the Marine Corps, Ron Butterfield flew the F4B with Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 115. He wrote, “I flew 337 sorties during those 13 months.”92
http://www.west-point.org/class/usma1965/ClassPoop/History/VN_Years3-1-1.pdf