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Old 30th Jul 2021, 15:35
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Ninthace
 
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Originally Posted by West Coast
Welcome to brush wars and insurgencies. REMF, POG, in the rear with the beer and the gear and other expressions of life spent behind the wire are hardly accurate anymore. One resupply mission to an outpost puts you on the front lines. One humanitarian mission to help rebuild a school puts you on the front lines. Simply being in country often puts you on the front lines as evidenced by a number of dead and a large loss of Harriers being destroyed while nested away for the night.

Equality means being subject to heading off to war like the fellas.
Kinda my point. You don't need to be a gun totin' pack haulin' hairy infanteer to go to war or do a useful job.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-11688205
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...g-comrade.html
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