Yokohammer wrote:dimwit wrote:My opinion of the SDF rescue teams will be forever jaded by their not so thoroughly adult decision to do a campy rather try to rescue the survivors of the JAL 123 crash back in 1985.
And worse ... Even though the USAF were at the crash site, ready to drop in at a moment's notice, they were refused permission. Can't have the damn yanks showing up Japan's elite SDF, now can we.
Exactly right but was that a decision made by the SDF or by the creme de la creme who make up the politicians and senior civil servants around here?