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- From: Friedrich BROHS <fbrohs@email.tuwien.ac.at>
- Subject: Re: How much does this equipment cost? (Southern Watch)
- Message-ID: <C19o3u.3uB@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM>
- Sender: military@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM (Sci.Military Login)
- Organization: Technical University of Vienna
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- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 17:47:53 GMT
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- From Friedrich BROHS <fbrohs@email.tuwien.ac.at>
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- Hiya everybody!
- I don't know about resupply with tomahawks, but an episode about the
- French Foreign Legion during their Indochina campaign. There was about a
- small Company of FFL and about a company of Coloniale Troops on the
- opposite end of the town. Through some misfortune (explosion and fire)
- the Coloniale lost all it's tobacco. As no troops were permitted to
- resupply the Coloniale (tobacco wasn't worth the risk of getting several
- people shot) the FFL removed the explosives of some mortar shells,
- filled them with cotton approximately the same weight as the tobacco and
- zeroed in. Then they sent the tobacco the same way, too.
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- F.Brohs
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