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To: R. Scott
"Mechanized infantry has the means of acquiring and carrying a lot more - the tracks can hold a lot."

LOL I wouldn't really know. I went through IOBC (Infantry Officer Basic Course) as a mech-man but my duty station was the 9th Infantry Division, one of the last remaining "light" divisions in the army. For awhile I was a TOW missile platoon leader, but the TOWs are said to mean "Tired Of Walking!" Eventually we became the army's High Tech Test Bed and got to test the SEAL Dune Buggies and the now common Humvee.

146 posted on 05/19/2004 3:56:38 PM PDT by ExSoldier (When the going gets tough, the tough go cyclic. (R.I.P. harpseal))
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To: ExSoldier

A test and evaluation that sounds like fun!
All I got to test was proposed combat boots - by walking 500 miles on a test track at Fort Meade.


148 posted on 05/19/2004 4:03:53 PM PDT by R. Scott (Humanity i love you because when you're hard up you pawn your Intelligence to buy a drink.)
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