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From: davecb@nexus.yorku.ca (David Collier-Brown)
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Subject: Re: Gulf - Canadian forces?
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Date: 24 Jan 91 03:33:33 GMT
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From: davecb@nexus.yorku.ca (David Collier-Brown)

davecb@nexus.yorku.ca (David Collier-Brown) writes:
| save for the field hospital and some air force troops who provide security
| for our aircraft.

 OOPS!  I no sooner sent that off than I saw a picture of a member of R22R
on airstrip security duty in Saudi Arabis.
  Sorry, I lied: we have canadian ground troops from the Royal 22nd Regiment,
the ``Van Doos'' in the Gulf.  Guarding planes, mind you, but defnitely the
army.

--dave (back to the books!) c-b
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