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Old 02-22-2011, 06:18 AM
perardua perardua is offline
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Originally Posted by Fusilier View Post
Yes, unfortunately. Downsizing of manpower and budgets.
That sucks. I was always a fan of the phrase "every mortarman is an infantryman, but not every infantryman is a mortarman!" Made up for having far longer training days than the Rifle Flights (we mostly had to fit our mortar training around all the other mandatory pre-deployment training, hence we used to tab our mortars around ranges and exercise areas so we could drill on them while waiting for stuff to happen).
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