John's gone for a while....

.... sigh. The list just won't be the same till he 
comes back. 

And he won't get to get my jab about the US 
being able to afford more than a brigade of 
troops, combined arms, tanks, artillery, etc. but 
apparently the budget ran out before they 
could afford a some diplomacy training for their 
combat engineers.... ;)  [1][2]

Ah well, in the meantime, we'll just have to find 
someone else suitably "exciting" to keep us in 
good form for his return! (Laserlight, your awful 
sense of humor might almost qualify!)

All the chuckling and poking of fun, 
Tomb Raider :)

[1] Don, if you're daring, you can wave this 
little red rag John's way. :)  (One has to have a 
sense of humor in this life or one eventually 
goes insane! Hmmm. But I'm already nuts.... 
maybe that plan didn't work..... *VBG!*)
[2] Inflammatory Comment - Likely to ignite 
something. I suppose things likely to cause fire 
or explosion would be an Assault Pioneer or 
Engineer specialty. Diplomatic skills probably 
aren't in the MOS. ;-) 

<PS - Have fun at NTC John! When I first read 
John's sign off (it was late), I thought he said 
NTTS. Which is, of course, National Tractor 
Trailer School, where you learn to "Drive Trucks 
For A Living". That was quite a funny thought. 
*Grin*>

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Thomas Barclay
Co-Creator of http://www.stargrunt.ca 
Stargrunt II and Dirtside II game site
"In God We Trust... on Cold Steel We Depend."