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To: Poohbah
"You're thinking of good old-fashioned mass army slugfests from 1943"

I'm not sure of your position. Are you saying that in today's battlefield, with enemies that we're most likely to face, Corps level personnel are as likely to be captured as those in units closer to the front? No.

Maybe killed if we face an enemy like China,… maybe. But any force that could do that's much more likely to actually honor the Geneva Convention prisoner of war rules and not gang rape our women. We don't fight civilized nations. (Now you're thinking of WWII) We're at real risk of fighting barbaric POSs like Iraq, Iran, Syria or NK, and they won't likely be capturing people at the Cops HQ level.

35 posted on 04/10/2003 4:42:52 PM PDT by elfman2
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To: elfman2
I'm not sure of your position. Are you saying that in today's battlefield, with enemies that we're most likely to face, Corps level personnel are as likely to be captured as those in units closer to the front?

As the term "front line" becomes increasingly irrelevant, yes.

That maintenance company WAS a corps asset, by the way.

Maybe killed if we face an enemy like China

Actually, that's the war least likely to be danger

But any force that could do that's much more likely to actually honor the Geneva Convention prisoner of war rules and not gang rape our women.

Our Corps-level units do not have invisibility shields, or mystical talismans that make the enemy unable to capture them.

They are flesh and blood. And the enemy is not likely to "play fair" to get their opportunity to capture Americans. They are likely to use ruses, wait around in civilians clothes until the frontline troops go past, et cetera.

We don't fight civilized nations. (Now you're thinking of WWII)

The good folk murdered by Kampfgruppe Peiper at Malmedy would disagree with your assessment of the WW2 Germans being of a civilized nation.

And, BTW, they were mostly divisional and corps-level personnel, not frontline grunts.

We're at real risk of fighting barbaric POSs like Iraq, Iran, Syria or NK, and they won't likely be capturing people at the Cops HQ level.

They've already done just that, thank you very much.

37 posted on 04/10/2003 4:49:08 PM PDT by Poohbah (Crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of their women!)
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