[Old Sarge]

Hm. If that's the case, then it's the first deployment for the Blackhorse in a long time.

I rode with them last June, on a rotation against a Guard unit that's already in The Box. They did fine.

The two-region war is a throwback from our time: two-front war against the Great Red Hordes. We did the same thing, when I wore a younger man's uniform in the early 80's. But we're finding the multi-conflict works real well. And with the new Brigade Combat Team structure, it means less tail, more teeth.

[xzins]

More tooth to tail has always been the marines' motto, but they've done so realizing that the army would pick up their combat service support slack.

Sec. Rumsfeld intends to do so by civilianizing a number of positions.....I guess from cooks to transporters.

This leads to the obvious question: what are the advantages of having the cooks be military members rather than civilians?