Re: [tlug] (OT) The enigma of Japan

[Brett Robson <tlug@example.com>]

CL wrote:
> Sometime at a nomikai, if you buy enough beer I can tell you about being 
> out on patrol in the jungle for two and a half weeks in the summer of 
> 1973 and ending up having to cut through a French resort where there 
> were hundreds of topless French and German women cavorting on the 
> Vietnamese beaches ... to get back to our fire base.
>
>   


I'll buy you a beer just for telling that on the mailing list, I had a 
good giggle at that.The juxtaposition of extreme situations such as 
combat and natural disasters with routine daily life is something that 
is hard to get your head around.

Funny, when I watched the extended version of Apocalypse Now with 
friends, I commented that I didn't remember there being so many breasts 
in the army. Maybe it was closer to the truth than I thought ;)


Brett
(Royal Australian Signal Corps)