🚀 go-pugleaf

Thus Spake mshinn@osf1.gmu.edu (Michael T Shinn):

%Its sometimes a hard lesson to teach a soldier.  Soldiers are
%indoctrinated to focus on Enemies, theres a clear psychological advatage
%in demonizing your foe, it makes it trivial to kill them - they're not
%people in essence - when we as Soldiers are asked to conduct CD training,
%its hard to supress that indoctrination, without recognizing that fault in
%our approach.  Its every leaders responsibility to ensure that all his men
%(and in some case women) undewrstand that these "rioters" are NOT the
%enemny.  They're the very people we exist to protect.

That was what half the time is spent on on the CD weekend.  Minimum force, over
and over.  Although there were a lot of National Guard 3, Kent State 0 jokes.

%I dunno about this one.  MY unit was preety Gung Ho about not playing by
%the rules if the Feds went 86.  In fact, I don't think I ever heard such
%Anti-Clinton anywhere else but in my last Grunt Unit.  People used to
%discuss what would happen if the Federal Government lost its marbles and
%decided to play God.

It's pretty rare to find a soldier who will (in his off time-officially it's a
different story) admit to liking Clinton.

%be suprised by what a simple "Grunt" can do to a Tank if you know what
%you're doing.

Satchel charge in the turret ring, HUA!

John M. Atkinson
jatkinso@gmu.edu
"A nation which despises its soldiers will all too soon 
have a despicable army
                 --Jerry Pournelle