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Old December 30th 03, 12:21 AM
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"Tank Fixer" wrote in message
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In article ,
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"David W" wrote in message
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DM's LAW story, the A-12's @ Groom Lake,
the FB-4's in Turkey, P-38's in the 1950's ? I missed these, anyone
care to fill me in or point me in the right direction please ?


They'll just screw it up so let me.


How nice of you to make the claims again.
I wouldn't want to mis-quote you.


I talked with an Oklahoma Nation Guard that said his unit trained at FT

Hood
with the 82nd in the early 80s. It was an exercise of sorts. He said

that
the Guards got a bit rambuntious and were getting mighty close to the

82nd
until an 82nd place a LAW round just to the left (or right) of a Guards
head. At that point, things were more than a bit intense and they

stopped
the exercise. I do know a few of the Guards were more than a bit cocky

and
that 82nd troop probably did the best lesson they ever learned. Is it

true?
You take it up with the OKGuards, not me. But it sounds like it could

have
happened.


Does this pass the smell test ?
That live ammo was on an exercise ?
Troops shooting at(near) troops on purpose ?


Was it something like this type of exercise, EDRE when the brigade is on
DRB1, and the troops do not know if it is practice or for real? Would live
ammo be used then? Is this what he is referring to, possibly?
http://www.globalsecurity.org/milita...army/82abn.htm
10th paragraph down "An EDRE is nothing more than a practice deployment
which involves the DRF 1 Task Force and possibly the DRF 2 and DRF 3 as
well. When the EDRE is called, no one knows if it is practice or real. The
units go through the entire alert, recall, and deployment procedures as if i
t is real. "

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