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From: sjs@bae.bae.bellcore.com (Steve Szymanski)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Shovel as a weapon
Message-ID: <1991Jun27.020731.4513@cbnews.cb.att.com>
Date: 27 Jun 91 02:07:31 GMT
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From: sjs@bae.bae.bellcore.com (Steve Szymanski)
If I recall from a book that I have, the Soviet special forces,
Spetnaz (pardon the spelling !) include in their training, the
use of a shovel as a close-in weapon.  According to the book,
they were quite proficient at it as well.


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