RE: Berets and other head varients.

> From: 	 "George,Eugene M" <Eugene.M.George@kp.ORG>
> Reply-to:	 FTGZG-L@bolton.ac.uk
> To:		 "'FTGZG-L@bolton.ac.uk'" <FTGZG-L@bolton.ac.uk>,
>		 "'TEHughes@aol.com'"
>		 <TEHughes@aol.com>
> Subject:	 RE: Berets and other head varients.
> Date: 	 Tue, 12 Aug 1997 13:01:32 -0700

> >
> ><<I wonder, this is SF where the high tech battle field rules?  What
about
> >the
> >radio R/T, infra red pop down interface, helmet cam, built in map
projector (
> >with the "you are here red arrow!), ammo status, magna gogles, aural
> >magnifier, em detector, etc.
> >
> >In the High Tech battlefield the elite troops would be the ones with
helmets
> >and the militia would be the ones without. 
> Tom Hughes >>
> 
> Pfc. Hoskins crouched silently in the bush, sweating in the overweight
> laughably named 'cool' suit. The freezon-12 can had run out at least
two
> weeks ago, along with the batteries for the chil-pak on his newfangled
> MPPG, forcing him to fire it in semi-auto mode only. He groaned as he
> carefully removed the newlar "squat-pot" off his head and used the
high
> tech helmet for what it did best, provide a stable seat during the
long
> ambushes in the bush. At least the Indig militia had those old steel
> pots that could hold water for shaving or a quick cat-cat bath in the
> field. Hell, the Ell-tee had traded his cool-suit to a gadget-hungry
> Indie Captain for a set of the local's cammies and a bottle of
coconanna
> hooch weeks ago. Maybe some of the new lightweight battle dress would
> >come through on the next shuttle...... Maybe....
> >
> 
I LIKE IT!!!!!

KR