Cobol - Re: OT: Military Ranks/Computers : WAS Re: newbie question on cobol syntax

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Re: OT: Military Ranks/Computers : WAS Re: newbie question on cobol syntax

Alistair

2007-05-20, 6:55 pm

On 19 May, 17:20, SkippyPB <swieg...@Nospam.neo.rr.com> wrote:
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> Our main "allies" in Vietnam besides the South Vietnamese were the
> South Koreans and the Australians. They pretty much worked different
> areas than the Americans and were independant. My outfit did a brief
> operation with the Koreans but all they ever did was camp with us and
> then go off and do their thing in the morning. So the majority of
> friendly fire incidents were US on US.
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> Platoon is the only Vietnam war movie I've ever seen that gives an
> honest depection of what it was really like. Full Metal Jacket came
> close but had too much fantasy in it to be as accurate.

Some of the Full Metal Jacket film was shot about 2 miles from where I
live.

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