RE: Mercs as Peacekeepers

Britain lost more men to the USAF in the Gulf War than to the Iraquis!
Joke though, it says more about Iraq's army than the USAF.
Beware of everyone dumping on the poor old Yanks. My father's column was

shot up by Spitfires in Tunisia - the official British History blames
USAF 
fighters.
John

At 16:10 05/03/2002 -0800, you wrote:

>--- Brian Burger <yh728@victoria.tc.ca> wrote:
>
> > You know, the US Marines manage not to shoot up the
> > US Army too often.
> > They even manage not to shoot up the US Navy, and
> > the reverse is generally
> > true too. They even manage not to get shot by the
> > CIA, amazingly.
>
>I do notice you don't mention the USAF in this list.
>Which has a record of lighting up US Army, US Navy,
>USMC, British Army, and probably others.
>
>John
>
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