From:	Aaron Binns sparrow@***.net.au
Subject:	[OT] Vietnam lesson (kinda long) (Was Re: Values and so on...)
Date:	Mon, 19 Jul 1999 11:49:31 +1000

Strago Wrote In His Long-Winded Style:

> > I go to Saint Joseph's University in Philadelphia. There are
> dorms, and
> > there is a computer science major. The teacher's name was Dr. Tony
> Joes. He
> > actually wrote the book. It's called: Modern Guerrilla Insurgency by
> Anthony
> > James Joes. It discusses in depth the Greek Civil War of the 1940s,
> the two
> > wars in the Phillipines, the French Viet Nam, Viet Nam, and
> Afghanistan.

I hope this is a military academy / university.. else I wish we had those
subjects in normal Uni's down here....


> I actually did my G/Warfare courses living in the jungle, sleeping in
> holes in the ground 6' long x 18"deep and 2'6" wide. All my lecturers
> were Veterans of South Vietnam, Borneo, Malaya...and in one notable
> case, all three. The were no majors apart from "you are not here to
> die for your Flag, Country etc....You are here to make the other
> Ba......ds die for theirs. All in all, an eye opener. No Computers,
> and the only Engineers were laying explosives.
>
> Quote of Note;
> Journalist.."what do you think makes Australian Soldiers so effective
> Jungle Fighters?"
>
> Warrant Officer Instructor.."In most countries around the world, the
> Soldiers are taught that the jungle is a dark forbidding place with
> lots of things lurking in the Dark......We teach our Soldiers to go
> out and do the Lurking!!"
>
> Mist Warrior.

Mist Warrior, you sound disgustingly familiar.. do I know you IRL? Where
in AU are you? :)

* GreyWolf could add some other comments about the Aust. SAS... but he'd
have you kill you all after you'd read them *

The GrWf.