Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/09/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Sep 4, 2005, at 8:37 PM, Douglas Sharp wrote: > The story folded, > > The German Military Airbus was on a scheduled routine flight to > Pensacola (the Luftwaffe has a training unit there) and had problems > explaining that they had 10 tonnes of unscheduled cargo (one man > ration packs) on board, authorities being what they are, this had to > be cleared before allowing it to be unloaded. As usually happens in > military circles, this wasn't exactly a quick and simple task - the > impatient Germans unloaded it themselves, without being able to > produce the required paperwork. > > The plane should have been flying empty, then somebody had the bright > idea of filling it with emergency rations and , as we all know bright > ideas and initiative don't go down well in the forces anywhere, and > nobody had taken the time to fill out the forms in triplicate, > so...................... Proving once again that no good deed goes unpunished... :)