HUMOR-CHP VS USMC!

*My thanks go out to my friend, Billie Jones, of Hot Springs, Arkansas, for sending me the following bit of online humor.

**Two California Highway Patrol Officers were conducting speeding enforcement on I-15, just north of the Marine Corps Air Station at Miramar.

**One of the officers was using a hand held radar device to check speeding vehicles approaching the crest of a hill.

**The officers were suddenly surprised when the radar gun began reading 300 miles per hour.

**The officer attempted to reset the radar gun, but it refused to reset and then turned itself off... just as a deafening roar over the treetops revealed that the radar had in fact locked onto a USMC F/A-18 Hornet, which was engaged in a low flying exercise near their location.

**Back at the CHIPs Headquarters, the Patrol Captain fired off a complaint to the USMC Base Commander.

**The reply came back in true USMC style: Thank you for your letter. We can now complete our file on this incident. You may be interested to know that the tactical computer in the Hornet had detected the presence of, and subsequently locked onto, your hostile radar equipment and then automatically sent a jamming signal back to it, which is why it shut down. Furthermore, an Air-to-Ground missile aboard the fully armed aircraft had also automatically locked on to your equipment's location. Fortunately, the Marine Pilot flying the Hornet recognized the situation for what it was, and then quickly responded to the missile system alert status, which enabled him to override the automated defense system before the missile was launched to destroy the hostile radar position. The pilot also suggests you cover your mouths when cussing at them, since the video systems on these jets are very high tech. Sergeant Johnson, the officer holding the radar gun, should get his dentist to check his left rear molar. It appears the filling is loose. Also, the snap is broken on his holster. Thank you for your concern.

**Semper Fi !