Re: Advanced Guided Missile systems

On  3 Jul 98 at 23:33, John Atkinson wrote:

> You wrote: 
> 
> >Eww, the sheridan? They were given to the national guard almost as 
> >soon as they were produced weren't they?
> 
> Nah, the Guard wouldn't take 'em.  They equipped ACRs and 
> DivCavSquadrons during the 70s and stayed on regular service up
> 'till last year with our Airborne division.  Now their only function
> is at the training centers with fiberglass Visual Modification kits
> so they look like T-72s.

Erk, how did the thing ever get ordered and produced if it was that 
useless?
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