From: one-if-by-land@concord.com   
      
   "Charles Jones"  wrote in message   
   news:MPG.228cecc4d5403b8298968d@news.frii.com...   
   > In article ,   
   > me@dowmuff.in says...   
   >> > The best time was in *May 1977* when they gave me a jeep, a gun and a   
   >> > trip ticket to Lauterbach to record 2 weeks worth of military damage   
   >> > during field exercises.   
   >> > 2 weeks on vacation!   
   >>   
   >> THat sounds a bit bizarre - damage to what...?   
   >   
   > Heh.  Imagine a meadow or field.  Now imagine 60-some-odd tons of M1   
   > Abrams tank cutting across it at 40 mph.  Now make that a platoon   
   > instead of a single tank *and* cut across that meadow several times in   
   > the course of an exercise.   
   >   
   >   
   > Better than plowing ... :-)   
      
   heh, tell it.   
      
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