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From: eos!woody@eos.arc.nasa.gov (Wayne Wood)
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Subject: Re: Tom Clancy (actually, The Third World War)
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Date: 14 Dec 89 03:36:22 GMT
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From: eos!woody@eos.arc.nasa.gov (Wayne Wood)

In article <12210@cbnews.ATT.COM> emery@aries.mitre.org (David Emery) writes:
>
>similar to the M.I. Captain in the story.  She wasn't as pretty
                ^^^

hate to get into inter-service rivalries but it would take the army to dedicate
an entire branch to an oxymoron... :-)


>I knew during 4 years on active duty (with the 101 Abn Div (AAslt).

does air-assault mean you couldn't figure out how to fall out of them until
they were closer to the ground?


>p.s.  I've recently seen the "Marine version" of _Team_Yankee_.  It's
>a $11.00 comic book...

yeah, and the army version comes with a reader because they can't understand
captions...

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