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From: eps@rieska.oulu.fi (Erkka Sutinen)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: Use of SHOVEL as weapon taught?
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Date: 27 Jun 91 02:09:40 GMT
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From: eps@rieska.oulu.fi (Erkka Sutinen)
In article <1991Jun25.024419.27437@cbnews.cb.att.com> Fredriksson_Urban_NOK@kista.relay.nokia.fi writes:

>   That statement surprised me, since at least here in Sweden the
>   shovel has a reputation of beeing a most effective weapon in
>   close quarters.
>           Now I'm curious: What about other countries?

In Finland...
It was mentionet theoretically and one guidebook had several pictures
showing how to use Finnish military showel as a weapon which was quite fun...
I mean that wasn't very instructive for real situation......
We didn't practice it ( Artillery ;-) ) but I can't speak for others......
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