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Re: [semi OT] Women wargamers

From: Los <los@c...>
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1998 10:39:34 -0700
Subject: Re: [semi OT] Women wargamers

John Atkinson wrote:

> The 82nd fought the entire Vietnam War as a conventional unit, the
>

They only ha done brigade in Vietnam and just for theyear after TET. But
the 101st was their the whole time.

> Israeli Paras have yet to make a combat drop (they even have APCs in
> their TO&E), the British havn't made one since WWII (I don't think),
>

Both the Brits and the Israelis jumped into the Suez in 1956 or
thereabouts.

> This 'yomp' being a little livlier than a 'meander', I presume?
>

Cripes but those were some hellatious (sp?) yomps that the Brits
undertook during Corporate! Nobody humps or Yomps anymore like the Brits
or the Americans. They've raised it to an art form.

Los

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