Re: [OT] Update JohnA

At 3:40 PM -0400 5/14/03, Flak Magnet wrote:
>  >"Interesting point--my company
>>  was attached to a tank BN that was attached to the 101st Airborne
>
>What's this?  6 degrees to 101st Airborne?

More like 2 it seems.

>As to the puking chicken comment...
>
>I hope some 101st Private overhears him say that and educates him just
enough
>to make him never want to say that again.

Feh. I agree with John A on the Value of the Airborne in a modern 
environment. Mechanized Warfare (and the Zoomies) won the Gulfwar, 
WWII, Korea (if that's a win) and this latest scrap. It wasn't 
airborne drops. But good old fashioned driving up the highway with 
tanks and trucks and APCs, with an occasional driving over the 
beaches activity. Sure, the para-heads make and take bridgeheads, but 
you can't exactly exploit a breakthrough on foot.

To armor (and especially the No-War-4), para's are just a softer kind 
of crunchy, bravado and fisticuffs not withstanding.

>
>He'd be LUCKY to wear the patch, and ought to be darned honored. 
(Which he
>probably is, but it just being himself.)

Is John A that much of a ticket puncher? I'd expect not.

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