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To: Darksheare
I'm really showing my age! :-)
53 posted on 05/03/2004 9:14:00 AM PDT by Redleg Duke (Stir the pot...don't let anything settle to the bottom where the lawyers can feed off of it!)
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To: Redleg Duke
Don't worry about it, there's a Hawwaiian unit that still has the Duece, and they recently (within the past 5 years) did a stint at JRTC.
They were supposed to switch over to the 119, but with teh slashing of artillery units I'm not sure what happened to them.
I know about them only because they needed people with knowledge of the duece to round out their ranks for JRTC and it was put to our unit for volunteers.
My unit was going to JRTC the next year, and it was put to us for that so that we'd have a few people with 'first hand' experiences of what happens at JRTC.
Don't know exactly how that whole idea came about, but it was interesting to read about it after I left the unit.

Cripes I'm babbling.
What I was trying to say, before I sidetracked myself, was that the old Deuce was still in a few units here and there a few years ago.
;-)

What boggles me is the idea of cross-training/MOS'ing 13B as MP's..
Artillery types think this way: Hey, there's a bad guy, let's blow him up.
MP types think this way: Hey, there's a bad guy, let's detain him.
54 posted on 05/03/2004 9:40:26 AM PDT by Darksheare (Fortune for the day: I call upon the gods of STERNO and MATCHLIGHT to take care of the evil DUers!)
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