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To: Cletus.D.Yokel

Yes - “Charlie is in the wire”!

A quote from a movie, but I don’t remember which one. One of those war movies though. It meant that NVA or Chinese had breached the outer perimeter defenses.


1,589 posted on 12/13/2018 7:40:36 AM PST by meyer (WWG1WGA, MAGA!)
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To: meyer; Cletus.D.Yokel
Yes - “Charlie is in the wire”!

Better: 'Charlie don't surf'.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uU9Y1sNs1rs

1,594 posted on 12/13/2018 7:45:08 AM PST by xone
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To: meyer

They used to describe the Viet Cong with military phonetic alphabet as Victor Charlie, so I always thought Charlie was the North Vietnamese.


1,641 posted on 12/13/2018 8:44:05 AM PST by ichabod1 (He's a vindictive SOB but he's *our* vindictive SOB.)
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