| From: | IronRaven cyberraven@********.net |
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| Subject: | Starting equiptment [was: Value and so on] |
| Date: | Mon, 19 Jul 1999 08:41:09 -0400 |
>I'd have to disagree with that, Arcady. The US has always used its
It isn't the US anymore. It is a bunch of second and third tier countries.
>it isnt cost effective to install such hardware in someone who is going to
be
>gone in a max of six years. once they re-up, possibly for as long as 10
Well, some units and MOS, the initial tour is five years, but most of that
is due to havin gspent two or three years in training. I could see a
"cyber corp" ("E-infantry"?) who get upgraded, but they are
UCAS/CAS/CFS
property of the next ten years and have have a nice remote destruct package
just in case they go AWOL.
However, things like WR 2 or 3, VCR 3, tactical computers, and most
weapons systems are going to be repoed at the end of that.
>starting "runner, he cant be 38 or more. Hell, if I was a Johnson, I'd
I've run a 55 year old grandmother, but when she was younger she was one
of the "first runners".
CyberRaven
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"Once again, we have spat int he face of Death and his second cousin,
Dismemberment."
"'Impossible' is a term used by those of little imagination or intelligence
to describe that which they can not understand."
