Just a reply to the 'who ever sent anyone to help the USA when she needed it' type quote from some Canadian in the '70s.
Your answer is Australia.
Both millitary and civil aid is regularly given.
By civil aid I mean things like Aussie firefighters helping with the forrest fires every year, granted, in Aussie fire season, the yanks are down here, so it's certainly not a one way deal.
We sent guys to help clear up after the WTC ordeal too.
I think we are about the only country ever to pay every cent of what we owed uncle Sam for millitary hardware too.
And allmost every millitary action involving the US since 1942 has allso involved Australian servicemen.
We are like the little brother.......annoying as all hell 90% of the time, but real handy to have around when the smelly stuff hits the spinny thing.
Blue
PS I agree, the US cops a bad rap from just about everywhere, just about all the time, but the world today would be a far worse place were she not around , after all, it was the US which prevented mother Russia from taking over the whole of Europe pretty much.
If you are European, free, and not real keen on salt mining for the State, you pretty much should be real grateful toward America IMHO, regardless of any faults you may percieve.
PPS you guys know anything about Aussie muscle cars? The Holden Monaro, the Ford Falcon GTHO, the Valiant Charger R/T ?
All three would do a quarter mile in under 12 sec , bog stock standard, off the showroom floor, and this was in the late '60s, early '70s
The Charger (powered by a six cylinder eng.) was the quickest of the lot with 10.6 sec quarters.
All designed off US stuff though....Holden is GMH, General Motors Holden, Ford Aust. is obviously part of Fo.Mo.Co and Valiant was owned by Chrysler.
Valiant doesnt exist anymore, but both Holden and Ford have released 2003 models of the Monaro and the GT...no doubt those babies are pretty damn slippery too.
Just a a point of interest, in 1971 we had what they call the 'supercar scare' where the manufacturers where prevented from releasing that year's models of their 'race car' models...the ones they used at Bathurst
Ford had what they called a 'Phase IV' GTHO planned, and Holden had their XU-2 Torana and 'Old Man Emu' 454 big block powered HQ Monaro. ( so called because ofan old song that told of an old man emu being able to run the pants off a kangaroo, the 'roo with wheels being Ford's unofficial GT badge)
And valiant had a 440 Magnum powered Chjarger in the works.
Law was passed to ban the production of all these cars, because it was just getting too damn fast for publicly available cars. (all cars raced at Bathurst had to be 'factory stock' and available to everyday motorists to be allowed to race)
