vft guy in SJ
VFT and Drosera lover
Because in foreign countries, dropping napalm on mine fields is not an option. We have to send in live people to find, dig up and de-fuse the land mines, which is EXTREMELY dangerous. Fort Ord is a military owned compound, and they basicaly have the right to do whatever the heck they feel like there. Just like you have a right to dig up your lawn and plant a CP bog. It all depends on your priorities. The military objective is not conservation. They are there to train people to risk their lives doing a job that MOST of us would rather not do. They train to fight and die in OUR defence, to preserve our rights as Americans to sit here and complain about how awful they are. For those of you who are anti-military, I will not attempt to sway your opinion. I would however like to give you something to think about. Without the military, MANY of the technological and medical advances that have been made in the last 150 years would not have come to pass. Much of what we all take for granted in todays society was originaly designed for use by the military. That PC you are sitting at right now, reading this on, was originaly designed to calculate the complex mathematics of trajectories for aiming guns at targets. MANY MANY of the medical advances made in the 20th century are directly related to battlefield medical observations and techniques. How many lives have been SAVED as a result of what was learned from the losses of wartime? I for one have no problem with them scorching off the mine field. I would rather lose a few animals than see my friends, or my friends children killed or maimed by a land mine.
climbing off the soapbox...
Steve
climbing off the soapbox...
Steve