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Originally Posted by dragoon500ly
LOL! Not ABC?
Seriously, when I was stationed with 2ACR, we were close enough to the border to pick up East German and Czech TV and radio as well as the Russian TV channel. Got to see lots of bull***t..err...sources of information telling everyone how horrible and evil NATO was.
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Did you see that attempted hatchet job back in '81 that Communist Broadcasting Service put out called "The Defense Of The United States of America"? One of Reagan's first steps in office was to rebuild our military, and
oh my god CBS went insane. This five day muckraking mini-series "exposed" how awful the hardware Reagan was getting ready to invest in was, how it'd be missiles over the pole anyway and new carriers, fighter aircraft, bombers, tanks, APCs and so on were useless and a waste of taxpayer dollars and the ones that Reagan was purchasing were all bad anyway and they could
prove it. I remember one smarmy comment from Morely Safer that "according to one USAF commander, the F15 Eagle is, in fact, a turkey."
BAHAHAHA. Yeah, wipe that turkey egg off your face, Safer, because the Israelis used that "turkey" to win 80-0 over the Bekaa Valley not a year later. A plane so "bad", it'll still be in service for the next fifteen years (that's fifteen
plus thirty years after CBS' little hatchet job that nobody but military hardware geeks like me remember anyway).
In fact,
most of the wonder weapons that Reagan invested in? Yeah, they were all nearly a decade old in design! F15 was started in 1973, under Ford!
Carter is the one who signed off on procurement! Same for the '16, the B1, the F117; the Abrams was the product of 20 years of attempts to replace the M60...
All Reagan did was order
more of it and throw out Hollow Farce...erm, Force.