[geeks] gun control thoughts

[Francisco Javier Mesa-Martinez]

On Tue, 9 Dec 2003, Brian Dunbar wrote:

>
> On Dec 9, 2003, at 9:53 AM, Francisco Javier Mesa-Martinez wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 8 Dec 2003, Bill Bradford wrote:
> > >
> > > I hope said Marine spent a LOT of time cleaning the head after that
> > > incident.  a LOT of time.  a HUGE amount of time.  That's
> > inexcusable.
> >
> > The key word there is US Marine, the nickname they had whenI was
> > involved
> > in a few NATO joint exercise was "organ donors." One of the training
> > accidents I saw sort of gave me a hint about the reason for the
> > nickname.
>
> Hey, them's fightin' words, Francisco (grin).

:), I did not say they were bad soldiers, we even stablished some good
friendships with some of them (they loved our field food)... But when you
have to rush a US marine to a helo with the left half of his body blown up
after an accident.... other than that, I would never like to be on the
business end of a marine unit.