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To: TimF who wrote (245295)	4/10/2008 9:28:41 PM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (3) of 793917

I doubt they would get rid of the helicopters You now have a powerful constiuancy for choppers in the Army. And these kind of structures are difficult to get rid of. Look at Airborne. Vertical envelopment by parachute was one of WWII's major strategic failures. Yet we still have divisions of them jumping out of aircraft. Hitler started it, and after his major failure with it, Crete, quit using them. General Marshall and the Brits, not knowing the inside German story on Crete, thought it was a success and started it in our and their Armies. Not only was it a failure for us and the Brits, [Normandy and "Market Garden"] but we selected top men for it and stripped our regular Army of men who served as privates who would have been NCO's and Officers in the regular Army. It weakened our regular divisions. The Regular Army knows this, and it's one of the reasons they have fought Special Forces for so long. I say this in spite of loving the series, "Band of Brothers."

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