Originally Posted by
avmanansala
Can't hurt to ask.
Don't know if anyone is familiar with CDR. Richard (NMN) Marcinko, USN (Ret.), convicted felon (wrongly in my opinion), former Navy SEAL, fromer CO of SEAL Team 2; creator, founding officer and plank owner of SEAL TEAM 6 (MARSEFAC) now, I believe called DevGroup) and the now defunct RED CELL. In the 1980s he and his merry band of marauding SEALs in RED CELL over Labor Day Weekend mounted a security exercise at a US Naval base in California while the president was at his ranch. During the exercise, they created all sorts of havoc. In the end, they had loaded a pallet of "dummy" 500 lb. bombs and using one of those airport tractors parked it under Air Force One. They were not stopped by base security nor by the Secret Service. They "rigged" the "bombs" to explode with "IEDs" - smoke and noise - but they also rigged the tractor. The base defused the IEDs on the bombs, but did not detect the IEDs on the tractor. When the tractor was mounted to remove the pallet, the IED went off ... umpires ruled that the resulting explosion would have been enough to set off the pallet and destroy AFO.
Thanks for the non-sequitar