[Milsurplus] ARC 5 and others

[William Donzelli]

> One wants to be a little careful in ascribing sequence of appearance of
> equipments strictly on the model assignment sequence.  There is often a
> little item called politics which gets in between the concept of an idea
> and its commitment to hardware.  I don't have any glaring specific
> example to quote, but I have seen it happen frequently in modern times.

Certainly. There are no solid rules when it comes to model/type 
assignments or contracts - there is always the exception to the rule, so 
to speak. However, most of the time the system works.

I am quite suprised (and another exception) that in this case, RBD was 
reassigned. In every other instance I can think of, when a Navy model is 
reassigned, the old assignement is voided.

William Donzelli
aw288@osfn.org