Howitzers pulled from avalanche duty

[Loonman]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=519&ncid=519&e=6&u=/ap/20040427/ap_on_re_us/ski_resorts_howitzers



Alpine Meadows and Mammoth Mountain received the artillery pieces on loan from the Army and began using them last year to fire rounds into mountainsides and knock snow loose.


But the ski resorts received word earlier this month that the Army's Tank Automotive and Armaments Command at the Rock Island Arsenal in Illinois needs the howitzers back immediately.

[yelladawg]

1. No way

The Army has thousands of cannons in storage. This is a publicity stunt by bush to get Americans into thinking we are desperate, we are the underdog...feel sorry for us.

Plus, if major combat operations are over, why in the hell do we need a couple of old cannons?

The only valid reason is to keep them out of a terrorist group hands. Then why did it take them so long after 9/11 to get them back?

[Mika]

2. Skiers have to make sacrifices too, ya know

Its for the war effort to keep us free from war. :crazy: