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"Joe Osman" writes:
If those pesky Esperanto give us too much trouble our US Army is ready. All
they have to do is run off a bunch of copies of US Army field manual FM
301-101-1 "Esperanto: The Aggressor Language." You can get your own copy. Go
to http://carlisle-www.army.mil/usamhi/ click on the "Collecton Online" tab,
then the "Authority Documents" picture on the next page, the search button
on the next page and then enter esperanto in the search field on the next
page.
No idea yet as to when this 1962 edition which replaced the 1959 FM 301-101A
will itself be replaced by a joint manual. I would assume that a more
current estimate of the Esperanto threat would be required first.

That's just the Language Guide for folks who were studying the threat
of the Dreaded Agressor Armed Forces of teh Triumvirate of the Circle
Trigon. The Circle Trigon Forces were distinguished by three
characteristics - they spoke Esparanto, they wore "Ming the
Merciless" crested helmets, and they were the only military in the
world that the Pentomic Army has a reasonable chance to beat.
(Agressor training back then was pretty stylized).

Needless to say, the events of the Mid-1960s revealed certain
shortcoming in agressor training. Eventually the whole shebang
evolved into NTC at Ft. Irwin, with dedicated OPFORS pretending to be
real opponents, and whatever they're calling the operation at
Ft. Polk, (Which is where the Former Russian Helicopters hang out. -
at one point, in the mid-'90s, the most current Mi-24 (Hind) pilots
were in the U.S. Army)


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Pete Stickney
A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many
bad measures. -- Daniel Webster