Mercs need to wear clean underwear

R. A. Hettinga rah at shipwright.com
Thu Apr 1 10:41:50 PST 2004


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At 10:18 AM -0800 4/1/04, Major Variola (ret) wrote:
>How long do we have to wait before we can name our new
>attack helicopters "Fallujahs"?
>
>Do Iraqis know how to run casinos?

Saddle up.

Remember, the first Texas "Rangers" were antsy young last-born males
sent out to kill Indians freelance so that Maw and Paw and Junior and
spouse could raise cattle in peace.

The weapons hackers of their time, they were. A couple of them showed
up at Colt's house Back East one day with a few modifications for the
original six-shooter, and a large order for same, as modified.

Colt became profitable.


Turns out that the Commanches were holding their own with bows and
arrows until some rangers figured out that a few guys with a few
Colts apiece could ride up and take out a whole war-party in a few
minutes.

More to the point, once you cleaned out a bunch of injuns, *somebody*
had to ranch the land, right?

:-)

Cheers,
RAH


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[predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to
experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'





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