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    The answer to bigger bombs was to go everywhere on foot or in helicopters, I do think though it may have been cheaper to install smaller culverts!
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    Quote Originally Posted by ugly View Post
    The answer to bigger bombs was to go everywhere on foot or in helicopters.
    Which was the policy in 1974/75 when I was in Crossmaglen. You hoofed it or flew!
    I was a good runner in the mob. I alway's liked to think I could get out of trouble quicker than what I got into it!

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    Quote Originally Posted by ugly View Post
    The answer to bigger bombs was to go everywhere on foot or in helicopters, I do think though it may have been cheaper to install smaller culverts!
    A lesson we promptly forgot for Afghanistan.
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    Still policy in 88 on my last stint there unless you did the big resupply by road and that was only every couple of years! Helicopters could deliver just about everything we needed.
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    Quote Originally Posted by sunnoficarus View Post
    A lesson we promptly forgot for Afghanistan.
    To be fair, we didn't quite forget it. Someone just decided every man and his dog needed to carry about 2 tonnes of PPE...
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