Date:         Fri, 21 Sep 2001 19:25:23 -0500
Reply-To:     Stan Wilder <wilden1@JUNO.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Stan Wilder <wilden1@JUNO.COM>
Subject:      A Friday thought
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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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