The John Wayne thing was just a figure of speech. I'm just dumbfounded as to how American military personnel can let such sensitive equipment fall into the wrong hands and embarrass hell out of their gov't. I'm sure this is not what their training directs them to do. So, either they are insufficiently trained, or they went against training procedures. Either way I'd be saying to the Chinese "keep the dumb bastards". Why take them back. Let them stay in China and be a problem for the Chinese. Yeah, I know, that won't happen. They'll eventually make it back to the US where gov't & media will turn 24 fuckwits into heroes and Hollywood will have another blockbuster.

JG / F.M.E.