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From: eos!woody@eos.arc.nasa.gov (Wayne Wood)
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Subject: Re: Airborne Operations
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From: eos!woody@eos.arc.nasa.gov (Wayne Wood)

In article <1990Jul10.025028.10585@cbnews.att.com> sysmgr@KING.ENG.UMD.EDU (Doug Mohney) writes:
>Um, Grenada and Panama are probably different, equipment, training, and
>situtation-wise, than any WW II drop and in Vietnam. Hopefully, the
>current statistics are from 1980 onward...

definite agreement on the situation part...

i don't want to sound as if i'm belittling Grenada and Panama, but could you
imagine the results if these assaults had been attempted against a
*PROFESSIONAL* military force?  how about during a time of war?

all things considered, we were not in an actual state of war either time
and Grenada/Panama are not quite in our weight class.
>
>:do you still wear *baby-blue berets* <snicker-snicker>?
>
>And why are you trying to aggreviate a man who carries around an M-16 as
>a part of his daily job?

my motto:  if you must get unfriendly, do it from a distance. :-)

after calling in every piece of artillery the US has in it's inventory
(except battleships) at one time or another, as well as a few airstrikes,
and after carrying the mighty mattel myself for a few (9) years. i'm
not overly intimidated.

besides, everyone has kicked around the grunts for awhile... a former
paratrooper/former marine can kick around a glorified 'leg' if he
wants, can't he?

oh yeah... the obligatory :-) :-)

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