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    I cant do much with the DOD side of your issue...

    I cant do much with the DOD side of your issue but I do have some military experience and have been in business and finance for over 30 years. If you attract attention on this thing you are going to...
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    Sorry Marines

    I went back and listened again to the vid and those who correctly identified these guys as Army are correct. I mistakenly id'd them as Marines... my apologies to the USMC. I have been assured that no...
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    Manpower in Helmand

    I was less concerned about the manpower versus mission thing than the fact the force they did have did not appear to be well employed, was not using fire discipline, locating themselves where an 81...
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    Marines in Helmand

    I saw the video at this address:
    http://www.breitbart.tv/valley-of-death-nbc-news-crew-captures-major-firefight-inside-afghanistan/

    Asked a recent Old Grad to whom I am related what he saw wrong...
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    But you could say (as many do) our representation...

    But you could say (as many do) our representation sucks, lets remove them. It seems that there is a lot of that going around these days. Cavguy you may have a foam rubber pinata here..
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    Democracies and Insurgencies

    The short answer is, no, I can't think of one.

    As to suitability for your Thesis, the information you provide seems to me, possibly correlated but not necessarily causal. If the data are not or...
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    Squads and machine guns

    Machine guns:
    Don't care much for any automatic weapon that jumps around as much as the different 5.56 derivatives. Most of them appear to be assault rifles on steroids. I had MUCH better results...
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    Thanks for the encouraging words. I'll do it. As...

    Thanks for the encouraging words. I'll do it.
    As to DA's decision, it's not the first time they've been wrong but if this LIC stuff is what's on the horizon, something like this will have to happen....
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    In-Country Advisory Unit

    Ran a MAT in Vietnam.

    My call sign as a MAT leader was 50B hence the tag line.

    In that 8 months 2 of the 5 MATs in our province were overrun, one wiped out, one all shot up. My team was the...
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    How the ARVN lost

    We "trained" the ARVN for more than a decade. Too much of that training was that the Americans would move if you won't because we were not patient. We also taught them to be the US Army when they...
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