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patagoniax wrote:

Red wrote: many of them on farms/kibbuttzes (sp?)

kibbutzim

(not meant to detract from your content, but you had wondered about the spelling of the plural)

The 7.62 mm calibre you were referring to was probably 7.62 x 39 if it came from the bad guys. By the time I got to play the assault course, we were all using 5.56x45, though I was working with the EOD folks and did not become a shooter again until the little conflict in SWA in 1991.

My little brother, on the other hand, survived an ambush in the Highlands of VN only to have a WP grenade explode between his boots. It was not a nice day.

Nothing to do with the substance of the discussion, just a nod to the intrinsic value of hardware in regime change.

greg~judy wrote:

Post by Red » 19 Sep 2011 17:28
Admin and eeuuexpat come closest in this regard- perhaps as close as can be expected in this big gov/big politics world we live in. I applaud them and their rejection of the status quo
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So, maybe I'm more like j-g, where I have hold of a .gov teat, yet advocate independence of the same. The key comes in truly being able to declare that independence. I can.

now please Red...
you may 1st include us in the esteemed company of admin + E
g~j have summarily rejected the status quo - we have for quite a while now
we live as citoyens de monde - and we survive quite well (tyvm)
you may 2nd know g~j have a very tenuous~tooth~hold on any .gov teat...
~j can only scam a mere pittance, from her impoverished Uncle Scam...
while g~ can glean even less, from his years of slave labor in Canukistan.
even if such small~largesse were to disappear in a trice (as well they could...)
we, dear sir, would still be quite independent~self-sufficient these daze.
(btw - it's all a matter of life~style, you know)