View from the North 40: Pamville News: U.S. tests invasion tactics

With war in the Middle East bleeding the U.S. military budget dry, government officials have had to come up with creative ways to practice war craft, and officials launched their inaugural test run under this initiative Sunday with a small-scale invasion of riverfront property in Canada under the guise of a drunken float trip in the Great Lakes region.

About 1,500 water-floaters taking part in the Port Huron Float Down on St. Clair River were blown by storm winds to the Canadian side of the river and had to be rescued by Canadian emergency services and transported back to the U.S.

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