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To: mamelukesabre

A carbon upper might be less durable.

Especially if you step to either side of the ramp of a CH-47 $hithook when the engines are going. And similar situations. Aiiiiieeee!

106 posted on 04/09/2008 1:42:33 PM PDT by archy (Et Thybrim multo spumantem sanguine cerno. [from Virgil's *Aeneid*.])

To: archy

Horrible image.

That’s a British soldier on a Warrior IFV.

115 posted on 04/09/2008 4:33:08 PM PDT by LSUfan

To: archy

“Especially if you step to either side of the ramp of a CH-47 $hithook”

And that’s providing you’re not knocked on your butt by the down wash either. :D

149 posted on 04/13/2008 6:23:17 PM PDT by 2CAVTrooper (If a mute swears, does his mother wash his hands with soap?)

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