Re: [OT] Re: Meaning and origin of term I've heard in a few movi

You wrote: 

>They had Beacons with built in radios but they didn't work for some 
>reason I forget. They had some alternate comm to an AWACS, but it got 
>retasked (I thought at the last minute) and so their backup wasn't 
>there where it was supposed to be. But you'd think some other methods 
>would be in place. 

You'd think that if all else fails, we can go to "Will pop purple 
smoke" or whatever.

>They did lug a lot of kit. Just because you can doesn't mean you 
>should.... and just because you think you can because of who you are 
>doesn't mean you actually can..... 

Like that MP officer that led the assault on the dog kennel in Panama?	
Became the darling of the feminists for being a woman leading troops 
into combat.  No one made much noise about it when she got medboarded 
out of the Army for stress fractures of the hips.  Why?  She got into a 
machismo thing about "Well, if you've got 70 pounds in your pack, I'll 
put 75 in mine."  There is a line between HOOAH and DUMB, and she 
crossed it.  Traveling light is plain common sense.

John M. Atkinson