<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=399275" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Situation Report On A Reconnaissance Expedition</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">We went to reconnoitre enemy positions<br>being dropped from very high by parachute<br>in a dark moonless night<br>and I couldn’t even see the stars<br>as I came down to the ground<br>and there wasn’t any sign of light<br>up to the horizon.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">After landing we grouped together<br>following a compass <br>walked miles and miles north east<br>saw the rising sun<br>walked right through the day</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and did not find any enemy, <br>found no activity or any sign of man<br>crossed some small rivers marked on the map</div><div style="margin:10px 0">saw a lot of crocodiles, some hippopotamuses<br>came across a lion kill<br>where they lay snarling at us<br>and as hiking through the bush go<br>this was excellent<br>as we saw almost all of the big five first hand, <br>while moving between them<br>and came back alive<br>but in a strategic military sense<br>it was of no value.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Gert+Strydom">Gert Strydom</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=399275" data-title="Situation Report On A Reconnaissance Expedition de Gert Strydom" data-description="We went to reconnoitre enemy positions being dropped from very high by parachute in a dark moonless night and I couldn’t even see the stars as I came down to the ground and there wasn’t any sign of light up to the horizon. After landing we gr..."></div> </div> </div>

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