WELL, i guess i am too callous. as soon as that ole bulldozer tracked out of
those trees, effen it weren't one of mine, it would be a fire magnet!
some babe in the operator's seat would just be a waste of good looking
womanhood, cause she was gonna find out about magadeath machs schnell!
lesson NO 1 to a an old grunt is never let anything that is meaner than you or
as mean as you to have a chance to hurt ya!
DAKKA-DAKKA-DAKKA-DAKKA-DAKKA !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
THUMP-THUMP-THUMPTHUMP-THUMP !!!!!!
POW-POW-POW-POW-POW-POW-POW !!!!!!!!!!!
WHOOSH! BOOM! WHOOSH-BOOM!!
end of LARA CROFT and her pet killdozer!
DAWGIE
> lesson NO 1 to a an old grunt is never let anything that is meaner
I hought Lesson One is "Never Volunteer"--of which a subset is
"Shooting at people attracts their attention. And incoming fire has
On Thursday, June 06, 2002 12:58 PM, Laserlight
> [SMTP:laserlight@quixnet.net] wrote:
Well, David Drake mentions obscurely in some of his Hammers Slammers books
that"although combat veteran's always parrot 'never volunteer', deep in their
hearts they know that it's boredom that kills, and will be the first to do
so." (paraphrased, as I don't have the actual text handy.)
Although I think it's been reposted elsewhere, I found this in a search and
it's dated 1995 and written by St^3 Jon
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> DAWGFACE wrote:
> WELL, i guess i am too callous. as soon as that ole bulldozer tracked
If it *were* one of yours, I hope you wouldn't fire at it... yet that's
what the above text suggests you would :-/
> some babe in the operator's seat would just be a waste of good looking
<chuckle> As opposed to some flashy grunt in the operator's seat? <g>
I notice that you didn't even attempt to figure out the personalities in my
chain-of-command example, BTW. I hope this means that my point about
non-universal shorthands got through?
Regards,
> --- Laserlight <laserlight@quixnet.net> wrote:
You know, as much as everyone says that, some judicious volunteering is
ocassionally useful. I got the day more or less off (shepherding
kindergarteners is downright relaxing if you don't have to do it day in and
day out, even if the little hooligans were wired up from it being the day
before the lost day of school) as a result of volunteering.
> subset is
For which see S L A Marshall's book. Yes, I disagree with some of his methods
and the exact numbers. However, the conclusions he reaches are 100%. However,
the use of popup targets and regular
force-on-force exercises has largely solved this
problem for US troops...
> On 6-Jun-02 at 16:06, John Atkinson (johnmatkinson@yahoo.com) wrote:
I always found it better to volunteer for a task I didn't mind doing rather
than waiting till the end of the task list and being stuck with something
atrocious.
> --- Roger Books <books@jumpspace.net> wrote:
> > > I hought Lesson One is "Never Volunteer"--of
And that's the difference between a Specialist with a little time in and a
Private that has had military relatives and is going off their war stories.
You always volunteer for the tolerable stuff so that when the crappy stuff
comes down you're already busy.