Cobra Marine

Why does the Marine Corps still fly the old Cobra attack helicopter while the Army flies the newer Apache?

The Cobra is a very old helicopter. Why does the Army get the new Apache but the Marines still have the Vietnam era Cobra?

The most basic reason is money. When the government creates the budget for the military they delegate the largest portion of the defense budget to the Air Force, then the Navy, Army, and finally the Coast Guard and National Guard.

Because the Marines is only a “Department of the Navy” they receive only a small portion of the Navy’s budget. The Army budget is greater than that of the Marines.

The Marines actualy use a lot of hand-me-downs from the Army. This mainly occurs because the Army will leave without all of their equipment which the Marines then confiscate.

Cobra MR F300 BT-RADIO, MR F300 BT, MARINE BLUETOOTH – Kit $105.97

Cobra MR F300 BT-RADIO, MR F300 BT, MARINE BLUETOOTH – Kit $107.93

Cobra MR F300 BT-RADIO, MR F300 BT, MARINE BLUETOOTH $98.12

Cobra HH475 Floating Marine Radio w/Bluetooth $75.00

Cobra MR-HH325VP -COBRA MARINE HAND HELD – Kit $117.97

COBRA MR F80B-D MARINE CLASS-D DIGITAL SELECTIVE CALLING TECHNOLOGY FIXED MOUNT $169.95

COBRA MR F75-D MARINE CLASS-D DIG SELECTIVE CALLING TECH FIXED MOUNT RADIO WHITE $149.95

COBRA MRHH 475 FLT BT MARINE VHF FLOATING TRANSCEIVER RADIO WITH BLUETOOTH $179.95

COBRA MRHH 425LI VP MARINE VHF TRANSCEIVER WITH ALL-TERRAIN RADIO $149.95

COBRA MRHH 125 MARINE VHF RADIO $49.95

COBRA MRHH 325 VP MARINE VHF TRANSCEIVER RADIO $99.95

COBRA MRHH 475 FLT BT Marine VHF Floating Transceiver Radio with Bluetooth $165.82

Cobra MR HH475 FLT VHF Waterproof Two-Way Marine Radio with Bluetooth $20.50

COBRA MR F75B-D CLASS-D MARINE DIGITAL FIXED MOUNT RADIO (BLACK) $172.49

COBRA MR-HH325VP MARINE HAND HELD VHF RADIO/TRANSCEIVER $125.95

COBRA MR-HH125 MARINE VHF HAND HELD RADIO 10 NOAA CH $58.95

COBRA MARINE VHF HAND $45.71

COBRA MARINE VHF HAND PN MR-HH125 $65.92

Cobra Marine Radio Submersible (GMRS) $110.00

Cobra Marine Radio $45.00

COBRA MRHH 330FLT MARINE VHF FLOATING TRANSCEIVER RADIO $129.95

COBRA MRHH 330FLT Marine VHF Floating Transceiver Radio $132.28

COBRA MR HH330 FLT VHF 6 WATT FLOATING HANDHELD MARINE RADIO NOAA WEATHER NEW $137.99

COBRA MRHH 475 FLT BT MARINE VHF FLOATING TRANSCEIVER RADIO WITH BLUETOOTH $182.49

COBRA MR F55B-D MARINE D DIGITAL FIXED MOUNT VHF RADIO (BLACK) $144.99

COBRA MR F80B-D MARINE CLASS-D FIXED MOUNT RADIO, BLACK $177.49

MRHH475FLTBT MARINE VHF RADIO COBRA Bluetooth & Rewind $147.32

MRHH325VP MARINE VHF WATERPROOF RADIO COBRA 5 Watt $98.86

COBRA MARINE VHF WATERPROOF Portable Radio 10 NOAA weather channels #MRHH125 $56.00

Cobra Compact Waterproof Marine Handheld VHF Radio 1 or 3 Watts All Weather Safe $67.95

Cobra New Handheld Marine Radion MRHH125 $52.99

NEW Cobra Marine MR HH325 VP VHF Hand Held Radio Transceiver $95.00

Cobra Marine HH475 Bluetooth Floating VHF Radio $115.00

Cobra MR HH325 VP Marine VHF Hand Held Radio $127.66

Cobra Marine Hand-Held Dual Band Transceiver $152.91

Cobra Marine VHF Hand-Held Transceiver $114.73

Cobra VHF MARINE LARGE SCREEN RADIO $152.79

Cobra 25-Watt VHF Class D Fixed/Flush Mount Marine Radio $127.25

Cobra MARINE RADIO W/REWIND-SAY-AGAIN $184.38

Cobra 25-Watt VHF Marine Class D DSC Mount Radio $117.75

COBRA MRHH 325 VP MARINE VHF TRANSCEIVER RADIO $124.99

Cobra MRHH125 3 Watt Weather Alert VHF Marine Radio $54.95

COBRA MR F55-D MARINE CLASS-D DSC TECHNOLOGY FIXED MOUNT 25-WATT VHF RADIO (WHIT $119.95

COBRA MRHH 125 Marine VHF Radio $66.34

Cobra Electronics Marine VHF Radio MRHH425LIVP $144.37

Cobra – MR HH125 Marine Handheld VHF Radio $53.83

Cobra MR-F55 White Fixed Mount VHF Marine Radio 25-Watt $102.50

Cobra MR F55-D Marine VHF Radio – Class D – White $126.90

Cobra Mrhh 125 Marine Vhf Radio $54.66

Cobra Mrhh 425Li Vp Marine Vhf Transceiver With All-Terrain Radio $149.95

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Sunday, September 14th, 2008

Steel and chrome Parade
a poem by Peter Menkin

The parade of the city and county people

and cars painted with chrome

tubes exhaust Grant glee age

Street – mile-long parade.

A testimony of America

history, 55 Chevy Station Wagon

red lights again

like a nose jet.

Sculpted Shelby Cobra

a car coveted Hollywood

among the Rolling Thunder

patrolled by local police

in his late model fast pursuit

Vehicles, other air intakes.

The girls feel about guys

the bench seats, despite

Ford Mustang ($ 20,000 value)

has buckets – tip thigh thigh

his own against the gearshift.

A race to the melodic sounds piston

gas clouds exhaust after dark

sunset the crowds standing, sitting,

call and gawk in the industry

promises and freedom than

Auto brings. Sex, steel, paint

is a hot combination in a junio

at night, the excitement of the county.

The mating calls of drag-and-blow,

attitudes in adolescence, and adult

moments with some families in line

his social position in a

Brown 48 Plymouth coupe. What

Now, a company party

like a dance community in the thunder

and success. Glory, excitement!

Summertime Summertime stars a

song parade car colors

brought out to show and bluster.

A cultural dance on wheels

night and morning, also

on highways and regular roads.

It is an endless parade

Pet favored and polished;

even the Chevrolet 409,

mounted around the search for

Woody Wagon or something elegant.

We have met the 21st century

and is still with us, again, in a parade.

Audio reading here the poem is read by the writer, poet, Peter Menkin candidate:

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This poem from 2000 recently published in the Academy of American Poets writers workshop received few comments, I'm sorry to say. But I like the work, and here it is from their original version nearly eight years ago, when the parade Car was in Novato, California (Marin County), north of San Francisco.

This note to another poet, was published in the writer's workshop for me:

I had an idea that not everyone knows about car parades. This was held in Novato, California (about 45,000), and there are people who fix up older and the automobiles. They are awesome! Many people line the street for this popular event, is a just city.

Novato in Marin County, north of San Francisco for about 30 or more miles. I think we hold the annual parade. That I went to the motorcade, and I was impressed by it and remembered that there is no such thing in America as "car culture". Thus the poem.

Notes on the photo: The Rev. Richard Helmer, rector of the Church of Our Savior, Mill Valley, California, USA took this snapshot and gave permission to use on my blog. The blog is primarily spiritual and religious poetry, and although the poem published Chrome and steel today in Parade, I thought that Father Richard snapshot is a good option because it shows flowers and has chrome. The readers of this blog have noted that most photographs accompanying the poetry shows a flower or flowers.

So here is another picture of flowers, the instantaneous location unknown.

As a PS, Peter Menkin attends Church of Our Savior, Mill Valley, Calif., located in Marin County, north of San Francisco. Indeed, the man on the piano also illustrates the poem shows the Rev. Richard Helmer at work. The title is "Richard Piano".

"Prokofiev: Sonata No. 3 in a, Op 28.
Liszt: La Campanella
Chopin: Studies op. 10, Nos. 1, 2, 4 and 5, Polonaise in A flat major, op. 53, Prelude in G
Debussy: Estampes "

About the Author:

Peter Menkin, an aspiring poet, lives in Mill Valley, CA USA (north of San Francisco).

My blog:
http://www.petermenkin.blogspot.com

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