Re: Boarding combat

On Thu, 9 Dec 1999, Roger Books wrote:

> I'm going to shoot back, mostly because I grew up with firearms.  Most
> of the people I knew in the Navy had the Navy bootcamp firearms
> training,
> 6 shots with a 45 with an insert to shoot .22's, and if you looked 
> crosseyed they kicked you out with no shots.	I personally would be
> almost
> as afraid of the Navy people on my side as I would be of my
opposition.

If I was on a Boarding action, I'd prefer to have someone like Holdman 
from the sandpebbles (pre WWI US Navy crews) on the party than modern 
navy personell. 

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