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  109. I've heard this story many times and I find the conventional interpretation of it to be a bit dubious. The Arrow was indeed a very advanced aircraft, but it was likely limited due to its pure interceptor design. In its intended role for continental defense it may have done as well as its later American counterpart, the F-106, which stayed in service until the 1990s, but the Arrow would likely lacked the multirole versatility of the F-4 Phantom, which was used for air-to-ground missions extensively as well as air-to-air. Could the Arrow even handle itself in a dogfight against other fighters? The Phantom certainly could, when flown right, and in tests the F-106 even did well. Then there's the question of how fragile the Canadian aerospace industry was. When one big project cancellation results in the shutdown of your nation's entire industry, it doesn't say much for the resiliency of the business to begin with. A lot of big projects in the US were canceled over the years as well, and while occasionally a company would go out of business or merge, the US aerospace industry was never seriously in trouble. The B-70 comes to mind right off the top of my head. Finally, the idea of Canada pulling off an Apollo-Saturn style moon landing project is a bit much to believe. Where to even start with that? Sounds a lot like the lost golden age myth fantasy. Canadians have played a large role in the US space program, but to imagine the Canadian government shouldering the financial burden of a NASA type moon landing program, with all the public scrutiny that comes with it, is just too much for me. Public perceptions about government spending is what led to the guy who canceled the Arrow, after all.
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  334.  @HootOwl513  Truman stated that Marines were nothing more than the Navy's police force, and that's all they'd ever be if he had his way. And that was after the Pacific campaign. Truman was old school Army from WWI and the Corps was in a transitional period then, acting as a second land force in Europe and moving away from its maritime roots, while encroaching on the Army's "turf". Thanks to Lejeune, the Corps found its current role the nation's amphibious power projection force, getting back in touch with the sea, and this paid off in the war with Japan, which Lejeune correctly saw coming. After the war, though, guys like Truman and others tried very hard to break up the Corps and divide its assets and troops amongst the other services. Various excuses were made, such as "no amphibious warfare in the atomic age" and so on, but the Corps' proponents lobbied hard and Congress codified the mission and strength of the Corps in law as a result. Even in modern times, there are still people who don't understand why we have a Marine Corps, or why Marines aren't part of the Army instead of the Navy Department. David Hackworth was one of the latter; despite respect for the Corps he thought it should be merged with the Army. I lost a bit of respect for him when I read that. The Corps derives its strength from its partnership with the Navy and its ability to develop and manage itself apart from Army leadership (and importantly, Army budget controls), while being able to operate alongside the Army when called on.
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  359. The Navy and Marine Corps have safety magazines and training films that show gruesome accidents, the results of not following safety rules. There was a magazine article that showed what happened when a Marine didn't duck down as he walked away from a helicopter with drooping blades. The blade swiped the top of his head, scalping him. His cranial helmet probably saved his life, but there was a photo of the scar on his head and what is probably a permanent bald spot. Another incident was a Marine who improperly disassembled the nose landing gear of an A-4 Skyhawk, resulting in him laying on the hangar floor with the nose of the jet on his chest. Marines came out and lifted the jet off of him by sheer muscle power, but he didn't live long. A Navy mechanic was trying to get up to the cockpit of an A-6 Intruder, so he thought he would just back his plane tractor up to the side of the jet and stand on top of the tractor. He failed to notice he was approaching the engine intake, which hit his back and forced his body forward onto the steering wheel and jamming his foot on the accelerator. He was crushed to death by his tractor. There is a famous video on youtube of a sailor on a carrier flight deck being sucked into the engine of an A-6. He was fortunate that his body was jammed against an inlet vane before he reached the spinning engine blades. His cranial helmet got sucked through and damaged the engine, while he had nasty injuries. Flight decks are particularly dangerous places, because with all these engines running all around you you cannot rely on your hearing to protect you. My dad served on a carrier in the 1960s and witnessed a man walk into a propeller, killed instantly.
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