"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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On Wed, 24 Jan 2007 03:23:36 GMT, "Calif Bill"
wrote:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...ating%2C+funny

I feel sorry for those guys - that's tough. If that had been a real
assault, they would have been dead meat. I've seen a similar
situation when the landing craft hit a sandbar and it looked ok, but
right after the sandbar, there was a hole about four feet deep -
damned near drowned a couple of guys.

It is funny though - especially the guy with the exploded PFD with is
hands up in the air - I couldn't stop laughing.

In 1959 I was participating in a USMC night amphibious practice landing on
what was then called Formosa. The landing craft came to a halt, the ramp
dropped, the first jeep drove off and promptly sunk in six feet of water.

Oh well....