Re: HIGH TECH WONDER INDIVIDUAL WEAPON

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Atkinson" <johnmatkinson@yahoo.com>
To: <gzg-l@csua.berkeley.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2002 2:45 AM
Subject: Re: HIGH TECH WONDER INDIVIDUAL WEAPON

> 
> --- Derek Fulton <derekfulton@bigpond.com> wrote:
> 
> > To keep it simple, a REMF or what ever nickname
> > pertains to your part of 
> > the world is ANYONE who is further to the rear than
> > you are. In the 
> > Australian Infantrymen's case that's just about
> > everyone else ;)
> 
> Well, considering that Australia's last moment of
> military glory was. . . contributing a batallion to
> the thing in RVN about 30 years ago, I'd have to say
> that the US Army has PAC clerks and finance weenies
> deployed to Afghanistan who can consider basically
> everyone in the Australian Army, including airborne
> infantry and everything else, as REMFs.

Actually, some Australian special forces *were* deployed in Afghanistan.

Greetings