RE: StarFIST (slightly OT)

I think it's supposed to be Forward Infantry Support team..

Or a rearrangement of Infantry Fire Support Team..

FIST vehicles are redesigned M113 APCs with a turret mounted TOW system
on a extension mount in The US army

Michael Wikan, Game Designer
Accolade, Inc.

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> Subject:	StarFIST (slightly OT)
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> I started reading a book by Sherman and Cragg called "STARFIST: First
> To
> Fight" (book 1), on the hopes it might make for a good SGII
> idea-generator,
> and have come across an acronym I can't quite decipher, and so far
> have not
> seen an explanation for it's meaning (I who live in a WORLD of
> acronyms!).
> 
> Anyone else read this book or this series (assuming the other books
> are
> out/have been published)? If so...what does 'FIST' stand for? As in
> "...was
> then assigned to duty with the 34th FIST on Thorsfinni's World...." Is
> it
> a common one I'm just 'spacing'? I thought 'Fast Infantry Strike
> Team', but
> in my mind 'team' isn't an entire battalion or anything.
> 
> Mk
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