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To: .cnI redruM
"For the past three weeks, in California's barren Mojave Desert, the Stryker Brigade Combat Team proved its speed, versatility and lethality against a world-class opposing force at the National Training Center, Fort Irwin," an Army press release said earlier this month.

The military doesn't even try to hide the fact that it rigs these "exercises" so it will come off looking good. Just ask General Paul Van Riper.

64 posted on 08/26/2003 1:26:02 PM PDT by xm177e2 (Stalinists, Maoists, Ba'athists, Pacifists: Why are they always on the same side?)
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To: xm177e2
Rediculous. I remember The Gen. Van Riper flack.
I've seen hamstrung OPFORs before. It's a cheap way to do business.
65 posted on 08/26/2003 1:27:48 PM PDT by .cnI redruM (Nothing Is More Vile Than A Blowhard With Halitosis! - redruM)
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