Re: [sg] platoon stuff and combat engineers

--- KH.Ranitzsch@t-online.de wrote:
> > Your population gets a lot of practice breaching
> minefields in
> everyday life?
> 
> Think of a place like Afghanistan or Mocambique
> after decades of civil
> war and generous mine-laying and you see it could
> happen.

Nichts nien.  Civvies stay the hell away from
mines--they aren't stupid.  

Hell, even engineers are far more likely to blow in
place than lift.
 
> In Hamburg, every few months a dud bomb from WWII is
> found and defused
> - more than half a century after the last one fell.

Defused by professional explosive ordnance disposal
technicians, yes?

John

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