Agree on the combat load, not on the beards.
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Originally Posted by
goesh
- let them grow beards and lighten the damn combat load for starters.
The problem with beards is that most westerners don't wear beards so when the Afghans see those with beards they know they're not Afghans by the way they walk so they call them 'Jews' on the basis that only Afghans and Jews are bearded; most westerners nowadays are not.
It's not a pejorative with them -- but it is an indicator that it's a superficial trick of little real value.
No, no. I insist, it was MY error.
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Originally Posted by
IntelTrooper
In that case, I was wrong about disagreeing with you. We were actually in agreement. That would be my mistake for the day. :p
I didn't state it all clearly in an effort to save pixels. :(
(Don't give a dummy who can't say what he means in 55,000 words a day any slack! Save pixels my @$7 -- laziness, truth be known!!! :D )
True but there's no sense trying to improve things when there
so many little things on which to focus and waste time and effort... :eek:
I can see it now; "Yes, Schwartschronz, you can wear a beard but where's your reflective belt and are those boots are on the CentCom approved list?" :rolleyes:
Umm, that's 64.2454720791 to be precise.
So I'm wrong again, I used two decimals instead of rounding it up and coulda sworn it was 64.24 (plus, I transposed two numbers, I really thought it was 63.4). Sigh. Two more errors for today. That's 27 and it's only 2100 here...:(
I probably ought to get some Blanton's and sip a bit... :cool:
Long as you ping me daily to keep me alert, we're golden.
Not rum; that's one of them meta-fors... ;)
Factoid Department; the Ft. Buchanan class VI store for years kept the the highest annual sale total of all in the DoD Club system by a big percentage...
Hey, Goesh. There's no combat load problem...
Sheesh. This is flipping criminal. Some heads should roll... :mad:
Since this is such a concern to so many
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Originally Posted by
William F. Owen
I would suggest that it is not that simple. Earning the respect of your men, is something you must do. It's hard/impossible to live without it.
Templar never said "win hearts and minds". He said that success "lay in the hearts and minds." Heart and minds does not describe a definitive set of actions or effects. More over, winning hearts and minds is not, and can never be a military contribution to strategy. The military contribution can only be better security.
Protect their asses and their hearts and minds will follow?
Would the following be a closer approximation of what the "hearts and minds" thing really looks like
For politicians -How to win friends and influence people
For soldiers how to minimize enemies and gain support to kill the irreconcilable s