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To: Mr. Jeeves
It's a foolish and potentially fatal error to discard proven effective weapons systems and the means to replenish them.

While not deployed as cavalry, the boots and saddles Spec-Op warriors found that older methods sometimes served best.

I recall quite a few military pundits saying close quarter combat was a thing of the past so maybe we should abandon the bayonet. And yet....

18 posted on 09/21/2013 2:39:36 PM PDT by Covenantor ("Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern." Chesterton)
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To: Covenantor

“I recall quite a few military pundits saying close quarter combat was a thing of the past so maybe we should abandon the bayonet.”

I believe it was also our fearless (clueless) leader that said the same thing. And he knows what he’s talking about, after all, he’s the one that cammo’d up, low crawled across Pock-e-stan and used a Bick pen and a rubber band to kill OBL. Or hadn’t you heard?


33 posted on 09/21/2013 3:13:11 PM PDT by Hulka
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