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From: Robert.Allen@Eng.Sun.COM (Robert Allen)
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Subject: Re: Infantryman's Field Kit
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Date: 1 May 91 16:33:47 GMT
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From: Robert.Allen@Eng.Sun.COM (Robert Allen)


maxzilla.UUCP!waltm@bu.edu (Walt Mattison) writes:
>You did forget one of
>the best ways to tell who was in charge from a distance.....the clown
>holding the handset of the radio was typically someone you wanted to hit as
>a sniper.

A friend of mine who was in the Marines during the 80's was told that
the radioman has the lowest life expectancy in combat of any one member
of a team.

	[OK, this has drifted far enough away from the subject... --CDR]
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Robert Allen, rja@sun.com		DISCLAIMER: I disclaim everything.