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Re: KNOCKING THE ARMY

From: John Atkinson <johnmatkinson@y...>
Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2002 21:28:30 -0800 (PST)
Subject: Re: KNOCKING THE ARMY


--- DAWGFACE47@webtv.net wrote:

> the day JUST ANY WANKER/WANKLESS WONDER can become a
> RANGER< AIRBORNE,
> or SPECIAL FORCEs after kintergarten training is the
> end of special
> missions  forces . . . .

Airborne has been generic light infantry in all but
exceptional circumstances (knocking off the Panamanian
Defense Force, which could have been done by a pack of
agressive kindergarteners) ever since the invention of
the Surface-to-Air Missile.  You can't make combat
jumps in the face of air defenses.  Last real shooting
war, the 82nd made a truck-borne assault like it was
1943 all over again and they were the 5th Infantry
Division or something.	In Vietnam, where the Cong
didn't exactally have the most sophisticated air
defenses there were what, 1 or 2 jumps and both of
them were brigade or smaller?

As for Rangers and SF, the guys they are pulling off
the street go through the same training everyone else
does.  And they seem to be doing a damn sight better
in Afghanistan (in terms of accomplishing their
mission) than they did 30 years ago in another Asian
country I could mention.

> and a made in CHINA black beret does not an ELITE
> ARMY MAKE, but it does
> destroy one of the symbols of RANGER eliteness.. . .
> . .

1)The ones made in China weren't issued.

2)Anyone who became a Ranger to get a piece of felt
had the wrong motivations for becoming a Ranger.  And
any Ranger who lets that crap affect the way he does
his job is not the paragon of professionalism that
they have been claiming to be.
 
John

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