text: In reply to message70025: Semper Fi. That was my thoughts also. The thing is so loud that the enemy would hear you comming about 30 minutes before you took off. When i was an 0351 with "C" 1/6 we did a lot of training on taking a ship from a hostel force on our way to Somalia. We had nothing but time. The USS Guam was on the slow side. But we could have 16 Marines on the deck ready to fight in under 30 seconds. Nothing beats a fast rope insertion. I really think our military needs to cut back of searching for the next big technology, and go back to improving the technology's we already have.