RE: StarFIST (slightly OT)

Fleet Interface Strike Team

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From: Geo-Hex [mailto:geohex@teleport.com]
Sent: Thursday, 16 April 1998 21:37
To: FTGZG-L@bolton.ac.uk
Subject: Re: StarFIST (slightly OT)

> Date: 	 Thu, 16 Apr 1998 10:37:58 -0500 (EST)
> From: 	 "Aside from me, does anyone else know you're here?"
>		 <KOCHTE@stsci.edu>
> Reply-to:	 FTGZG-L@bolton.ac.uk
> Subject:	 StarFIST (slightly OT)
> To:		 FTGZG-L@bolton.ac.uk

> 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

I thought they defined that in the first couple pages, I'll have to 
check my copy as I can't seem to remember either!

KR

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