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    Quote Originally Posted by William F. Owen View Post
    The US Army is a murder mile away from either being the best or the most professional military organisation on the planet. Not saying who is, because I don't know, and that is not the point.
    What does this cheap shot have to do with the rest of your point?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Uboat509 View Post
    What does this cheap shot have to do with the rest of your point?
    Not a cheap shot. My point was that even in good armies, full of well trained and conscientious well meaning men, very bad stuff happens. I count the US Army as being pretty damn good, but it is not so good, that real tragedies and gross acts of stupidity cannot occur.
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    - The job of the British Army out here is to kill or capture Communist Terrorists in Malaya.
    - If we can double the ratio of kills per contact, we will soon put an end to the shooting in Malaya.
    Sir Gerald Templer, foreword to the "Conduct of Anti-Terrorist Operations in Malaya," 1958 Edition

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