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To: codebreaker
Well, technically this is true, but these American Indian soldiers were speaking their own language, not typing code.
15 posted on 05/19/2002 12:03:22 AM PDT by Pyro7480
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To: Pyro7480
speaking their own language, not typing code.

They did have to make up a lot of modern warfare and weapons words in their language.

19 posted on 05/19/2002 12:06:37 AM PDT by patriciaruth
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Well, technically this is true, but these American Indian soldiers were speaking their own language, not typing code.

I always thought it was both, i.e. they were speaking in Navajo but the messages were also coded to provide extra security. Am I wrong?

62 posted on 05/19/2002 6:59:20 AM PDT by jalisco555
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