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[Riley Casey]

I spent a few days every summer staring out the window of the family Ford at entire army divisions taking up the right lane of the shiny new I95 for most of the drive from Maryland to NJ.  Quite entertaining for a little boy in the mid to late 50s.  I've always assumed they were testing the logistics of their new transport options.  Of course the Germans won their war with the French in the 1870s because they had observers in the US in the 1860s watching us move armies around by rail.  Everyone copies everyone else.

Maybe that's why President Eisenhower built the interstate highway system after seeing the German autobahn.

JR

[Joseph D. Macry]

My favorite military quote is " no battle plan ever survives contact with the enemy" (Helmuth Karl Bernhard Graf von Moltke  late 1800s).

JR

"If you don't have a plan, from what will you deviate?" - personal advice from an Army major I once worked for.

[Mike Caldwell]

IIRC one of the criteria for the Interstate Highway System was that portions of it in every state would be built to accommodate military aircraft takeoffs and landings (weight, size).

"It's bad luck to take advice from stupid people."  -Herb Tarlick, on WKRP

My dad knew a guy in Air Force during the Cuban Missile crisis and I remembering him talking about the planes lined up on the interstate in South Florida with pilots in the cockpit ready to take off.

[Frank Koenig]

No input list ever survives contact with the band?

-F

[Dave Garoutte]

No input list ever survives contact with the band?

-F

That's the one!

[Justice C. Bigler]

IIRC one of the criteria for the Interstate Highway System was that portions of it in every state would be built to accommodate military aircraft takeoffs and landings (weight, size).

Seems like some states (Oklahoma) aren't living up to this set of design criteria. Pretty much every Interstate and other highway in Oklahoma is riddles with pot holes and ruts, and rarely straight.

[Tim McCulloch]

Seems like some states (Oklahoma) aren't living up to this set of design criteria. Pretty much every Interstate and other highway in Oklahoma is riddles with pot holes and ruts, and rarely straight.

OKLA is trying to make I40 in Arkansas look good.

[Justice C. Bigler]

OKLA is trying to make I40 in Arkansas look good.

Compared to the stretch of I-40 in Oklahoma, the stretch in Arkansas DOES look good. As soon as you cross the boarder it's bumpy and wavy and filled with pot holes.

[John Roberts {JR}]

Yet another conspiracy...   oh oh...

JR

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