To: Riley
Okay, you lost me. Since I'm not a "former grunt" fill me in, please. Thanks.
18 posted on
08/06/2003 9:40:59 AM PDT by
Oorang
To: Oorang
The author of the article is apparently trying to equate the use of camoflage among Western forces, which has practical value and makes real-world sense with the silly-assed notion that wearing an evening gown will 'confuse the bullets'. Good fieldcraft isn't done to make people 'feel invisible'. It is done to acquire legitimate advantage, even if only a couple of crucial seconds in combat.
One of the two is a rational, thought-out countermeasure taken from years of experince, the other is a ridiculous superstition that is so demonstrably wrong that it should be abandoned after the first engagement. No comparison.
20 posted on
08/06/2003 9:53:15 AM PDT by
Riley
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