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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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To: Poohbah
"That maintenance company WAS a corps asset, by the way. "

Notice that I didn't propose keeping women at the corps level. I specifically said at the Corps HQ btn level.

That maintenance asset, as I understand it, was forward deployed, like lots of units at risk of combat hanging under Corps administration. HQ btn level assets stay at the Corps HQ (more or less). Any exceptions would be an exception both ways.

40 posted on 04/10/2003 4:54:48 PM PDT by elfman2
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To: Poohbah
"Our Corps-level units do not have invisibility shields, or mystical talismans that make the enemy unable to capture them. "

I didn't say "unable". I said unlikely.

45 posted on 04/10/2003 5:00:18 PM PDT by elfman2
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To: Poohbah
"The good folk murdered by Kampfgruppe Peiper at Malmedy would disagree with your assessment of the WW2 Germans being of a civilized nation. "

Back to WWII are you. I think my point should have sunk in by now. For every scenario you can name where women at corps hq get captured and brutalized, you can name 100 where the same could happen to them at front line support units. That's my point. Get it? Minimizing the risk.

48 posted on 04/10/2003 5:04:28 PM PDT by elfman2
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