Re: [OT] Re: Meaning and origin of term I've heard in a few movi

At 16:04 02/09/98 -0500, you wrote:
>You wrote: 
>
>>They had Beacons with built in radios but they didn't work for some 
>>reason I forget. They had some alternate comm to an AWACS, but it got 
>>retasked (I thought at the last minute) and so their backup wasn't 
>>there where it was supposed to be. But you'd think some other methods 
>>would be in place. 
>
>You'd think that if all else fails, we can go to "Will pop purple 
>smoke" or whatever.
>
>>They did lug a lot of kit. Just because you can doesn't mean you 
>>should.... and just because you think you can because of who you are 
>>doesn't mean you actually can..... 
>
>Like that MP officer that led the assault on the dog kennel in Panama? 

>Became the darling of the feminists for being a woman leading troops 
>into combat.  No one made much noise about it when she got medboarded 
>out of the Army for stress fractures of the hips.  Why?  She got into a

>machismo thing about "Well, if you've got 70 pounds in your pack, I'll 
>put 75 in mine."  There is a line between HOOAH and DUMB, and she 
>crossed it.  Traveling light is plain common sense.
>
>John M. Atkinson
>

True but I suppose she had to work a hell of a lot harder to win the
same
kind of respect a male officer would get.  Such is the way of the world.
Whats the normal loadout of these people in any case?
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