We sat on our flak jackets in C-47s and the were useful against ground fire, but the suckers were definitely hot and heavy. You almost never saw anyone wearing one closed up, unless they thought to do it after the firing started.
Yes, the Russians have a lot of surplus stuff, especially since they still draft. When I went through basic half the guys got the new uniforms, and half the old, depending on your size, because they don’t issue new equipment until the old is used up. I’m just glad General McPeak wasn’t around to see the new designs or he would have wanted them.
Terry Pratchett has kids pegged – they are bloody minded little sods as soon as you bring two of them together.
]]>As for children, morons who drivel about “innocent” children obviously haven’t dealt much with children. My whole job as a teacher was to try to civilize the little bastards without unduly pissing off their parents, and let me tell ya, the job of munchkin wrangler is *not* a job for those of weak minds.
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]]>one of the things i discovered early on for coping with the [admittedly mild] dyslexia i’ve got is speedreading. if i can just get to the end of the sentence or paragraph before the brain freaks out over whether a particular word is bread or broad or board, i can usually figure out from the context which word i should have read it as.
sometimes though, the strategy backfires. i saw sarcasm, oil, and russian army scraps new uniforms in quick succession and was disappointed to find, when i got to the end, that this item had nothing whatsoever to do with polyester.
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