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Re: [OT] Update JohnA

From: Ryan M Gill <rmgill@m...>
Date: Fri, 16 May 2003 15:23:33 -0400
Subject: Re: [OT] Update JohnA

At 2:22 PM -0400 5/16/03, SKEITH439@aol.com wrote:
>It sounds as if the 4 ID trooper has some professional jealousy. If 
>you are afraid to jump just say "I am scared." The bottom line is a 
>riding soldier is a lazy soldier. They are both on the same team and 
>both are very important. However to say that a line grunt is the 
>same as the man who volunteers to be dropped from an aircraft miles 
>behind enemy lines is ridiculous.

Try the line grunt willing to ride in a thinly armored target through 
artillery fire with a very good chance of burning to death is equal 
to that man who could die from a fall/crash at altitude.

You can't say that units like the 1st ID or 4th ID that went ashore 
at Normandy are less heroic than those that dropped on St Mere 
Eglise. It just doesn't wash.  Combat arms is combat arms is combat 
arms. They're all equally hazardous.

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