Re: [SG] ESU Spentznaz

At 17:01 2002-05-12 -0700, John Atkinson wrote:
>Well, Oranges.  Reds would be truly rare due to the
>length of training required.  For instance, it takes
>nearly as long to go through the schools required to
>produce a US Special Forces Soldier as a Russian (and
>probably ESU as well) conscript's entire service
>commitment.

Are/were the Spetsnaz conscripts? I would have thought they were
professionals!

(Mind you, all I know about Spetsnaz is what I dimly remember of what
they 
thought us when I was a conscript, more than 15 years ago.)

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