On Wed, 11 Jun 2008 16:01:26 -0700, Larry Jaques
wrote:

On Wed, 11 Jun 2008 09:08:12 -0700, with neither quill nor qualm,
Gunner quickly quoth:

On Tue, 10 Jun 2008 22:47:01 -0800, pyotr filipivich
wrote:

And that rating has done some interesting things to the tactics of
those wearing it. You don't turn and run, you scuttle sidewise like a
crab "I'm wearing this wall!" as the E6 told me.

Its also the reason we are having so many people coming back from the
Sandbox sans arms, legs and with brain injuries.

Being involved in explosions that in any other war would have simply
killed you outright, are being survived in this one, due to good
quality body armor. Arms, legs and heads of course are not covered by
this torso armor.

I'm not so sure I'd reeeeealy want to survive if I were missing arms,
legs, and/or had brain injuries/PTSD after a nasty war. Dad caught an
AK round in the steel bottom of his C-123 seat directly below The
Boys. Had it been a wooden seat, he said -he- might not have wanted to
survive that triple dismemberment. (I agreed.)
He was over there in '65 pushing strapped-together crates of chickens
or pigs out on chutes. It took half a dozen Airmen to get the cows to
"voluntarily" jump with their chute harnesses.

MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
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EVERY war since Boog smote Ogg with a mammoth knee joint has resulted
in PTSD. EVERY one. Its all part of the man killing other men thingy.
Some worse than others

Someone posted that their dad went nuts as an MP on Guam during
Korea..not a hell of a lot of incoming or dead to pick up on Guam as
an MP

Others went the course in the middle of hard combat and only have a
bad nightmare now and then.

Shrug

As for missing an arm or leg...Ill take that over the Big Dirt Nap

Gunner