>Does anyone know the name of those rope nets that hang over the sides of ships for troop debarkation?

Gosh, I can't believe how many posts there are out there!!! I've been reading the emailed posts every day, and every time I try to scrape up time to go on line to reply, there's another danged brush fire that needs some gasoline thrown on.

Anyway, one of my co-workers is a Navy commander who at one time served on an LST (landing ship tank), a vessel from which Marines can debark by throwing over the side a CARGO NET!!! That's the official US Navy name for it.

TEd, who has seen SO many opportunities for puns and so little time to perpetrate them upon unsuspecting readers. For those of you who've been debating the nature of humor, I posted some time back my theory that the pu is the only form of joke which does not have a victim. Which is why we groan at them. There's no one to laugh at


TEd