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Dogfish -> Bernie and M4 (2/9/2003 10:07:14 PM)
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Hey All:
I'm late on this reply, but I don't get to this site that often anymore. I was at Aberdeen a couple of years ago. I coordinated the trip to coincide with the MVPA (Military Vehicle Preservation Assoc) convention.... (I think it is in May).
Do a search on MVPA. It may be too late for you to change your schedule this year, but there are advantages for visiting during the convention. The MVPA group was on the grounds of Aberdeen with a few hundred exhibits of restored vehicles, vendors, some reenactors etc. This is a good event in itself. Also the director of the Ordnance Museum (sorry, I forget his name), you may have seen him on the History Channel, gave a guided tour of the usually unseen parts of the complex. I saw the restoration shops and the warehouse where the restored vehicles are being housed until a new building can be built. Without the giuded tour you will be limited to see the "rusting hulks" (the dir's words) outside and the small arms collection in the musuem building. The museum plans to restore the hulks and move them all inside, to a new building when they have the funds to build it. His tour explained what they are up against with the EPA as far as rendering the vehicles safe (they even have to change any glow in the dark gauges!). He said they also receive hate mail form people that think it is a musuem to war and that the vehicles should be sold for scrap. Maybe you can contact him and arrange a tour. They rely on donations and private funding, so I would encourage anyone who can make it to go, and to drop some change in their jar.
-Dogfish
When you're wounded and left
on Afghanistan's plains,
And the women come out
to cut up what remains,
Jest roll to your rifle
and blow out your brains
An' go to your Gawd like a soldier.
Kipling
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