Re: BREN/BAR THOUGHTS
From: Ryan Gill <rmgill@m...>
Date: Sun, 3 Mar 2002 02:31:24 -0500
Subject: Re: BREN/BAR THOUGHTS
At 8:03 PM -0500 3/2/02, Robert W. Eldridge wrote:
>I remember feeling the same way when Tacfire came into the inventory. I
find
>myself wondering sometimes if any of the LTs these days still know how
to
>crank a mission with chart paper, an RDP, and a GFT.
Likely the red-legs that had always used horses to tow their guns and
limbers thought similar things about the mechanized concept that was
taking shape around WWI. Many still resisted the whole concept.
Airplanes were even more disdainful.
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