Disturbing Message
I had brunch with Frank Lanza this morning. This was quite a coincidence since only a few hours earlier I’d received a mis-addressed purchase order for some of Frank’s gear which I reproduce below:
Interstate Electronics
http://www.l-3com.comTo Whom It May Concern:
Please forward, at your earliest
convenience, 23 Trident nuclear warheads.Feel free to bill me if this
is required. Money is no object.thank you,
RageBoy
Frank and I had a laugh about this one. Here’s this guy buying retail when you can literally pick up free Sapwood SS6 warheads anywhere on the Klyuchi test range in Kamchatka. Of course a lot of them are duds. And they’re all pre-mirv and kind of heavy-duty, nothing you’d want to try to deliver to the target in a mini-van. But okay, if Siberian travel is too daunting at this time of year, a quick trip to the Gulf and you should be able to find everything from weaponized germs to cancer dust… and if you really can’t get the big bang off your mind, there’s always a pallet of Bechtel’s Best ready to fall off a truck out back by the loading dock at Y-12 in Oak Ridge.
Who buys retail?
Anyway, I was glad to move the PO back into the L-3 order entry process. Legendary customer service…. that’s my motto. Well, actually my motto is "Filling today’s needs tomorrow with yesterday’s technology," but I couldn’t figure out how to work that in to my little story about brunch with Frank (no relation to Mario) Lanza.