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From: Stainless Steel Rat <ratinox@***.NEU.EDU>
Subject: Re: flaming Americans (was: Re: Renegade's Gun Mod's)
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 1995 13:12:51 -0400
>>>>> "Jani" == Jani Fikouras
<feanor@**********.UNI-BREMEN.DE> writes:

Jani> I thought that the swiss were members of the army all their lives.
Jani> They do spend a couple of months every year/(some amount of time)
Jani> doing excercises dont they ?

Switzerland doesn't have a standing army, remember? And a militia is not an
army; an army is comprised of soldiers, a militia is comprised of civilians.

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