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					Originally Posted by martinguerre
					
				 And i happen to know for a fact that DI's are prohibited from striking trainees.  That whole scenario is BS, and a whole load of it. |  jeebus, what basic training did you go through?  couldn't have been before viet nam...
				__________________"We were wrong, terribly wrong.  (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations.  It could not be done and it was not done."
 - Robert S. McNamara
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 "We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches...
 We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles."
 - Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message"
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 never wrestle with a pig.
 you both get dirty;
 the pig likes it.
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