RE: StarFIST (slightly OT)

Our local gaming group uses First In Strike Team.  They're the suicidal
maniacs who are first through the breach in a boarding action or
assault.  Funnily enough, they're never short of volunteers & usually
get the job done (if you don't mind the high body count).

'Neath Southern Skies
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Mary had a little LAM,
It's thrusters all aglow;
And everywhere that Mary went,
The 'Mechs were sure to blow.

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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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>which in the monotonous, materialistic existence of modern times
nothing
>else can approach, it also presents great dangers.  It is not the goal
of
>*grand alpinisme* to face peril, but it is one of the tests one must 
>undergo to deserve the joy of rising for an instant above the state of 
>crawling grubs.
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