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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=399448" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The beret must have been a dead give away</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">To this day I know that<br>the beret must have been<br>a dead give away, <br>and the shoulder flashes<br>also proclaimed something<br>of the military unit that I belonged to.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Tired and almost asleep on my feet<br>after the long military flight<br>out of the war zone, <br>the soft rain smelled<br>fresh and it was cold<br>where I hiked<br>the last stint home.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Fourteen days leave<br>came as a real blessing<br>and just being away<br>and back in the states<br>was really great</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A Brand new blue BMW<br>stopped next to me<br>and the occupants were <br>very friendly<br>and it was warm inside the car.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It looked like a mom and dad<br>and beautiful eighteen-year old daughter, <br>but they were foreigners<br>and introduced themselves as American.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The girl really liked me<br>and their accents were all American, <br>but something was just not right<br>and I couldn’t put my finger on it<br>and just maybe they were just a little too much<br>into being Americans.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The man remarked that he find it curious<br>for a officer to be hiking<br>and I thought that NATO probably<br>had similar ranks<br>and I explained that my <br>camp was away in the war zone<br>and that there was no way<br>to take my motorbike <br>all the way there.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The woman was driving<br>and the man frowned <br>at the bars and badges<br>on the chest of my bush jacket, <br>as if the combination of them<br>did not make sense to him.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It’s another thing to be seconded<br>to different units<br>and to complete some<br>of their training<br>and I realised that for Americans, <br>they probably knew <br>a little to much about our army<br>and were most probably<br>intelligence for the enemy.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The girl treated me like a hero<br>and wanted to know<br>about my unit<br>and somewhere questions<br>about unit strengths<br>and targetable distances<br>crept into the conversation, <br>but I steered the conversation<br>in to another direction.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The man wanted to know<br>if we were really going to win the war<br>when the enemy use heavy armour<br>and I said that we would win<br>against any thing that they bring<br>and it would be better for everyone<br>if the Cubans just packed up<br>and went back home<br>and the man laughed at me doubtfully.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Maybe there was something prophetic<br>in those words<br>as was proved at the Cuito Cuanavale battle<br>and I told them how<br>my ancestors in a twenty thousand strong<br>Boer farmer citizen force army, <br>had subdued a British army of <br>four hundred and fifty thousand<br>for three years long.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Little did they know<br>that my words said much more<br>and that Ratel-90 crews<br>used the same tactics<br>of fast movement<br>and accurate shooting<br>and great bravery<br>in dealing with enemy tanks.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">There’s something very brave<br>to stop dead still <br>with a Ratel armoured car<br>to stabilize the gun<br>to be able to get the shot off<br>while a enemy tank<br>that can shoot while it moves<br>is charging towards you, <br>but that piece of information<br>never came out.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">[References: The Battle of Cuito Cuanavale “The results of the campaign up to April 1988 were 4,785 killed on the Cuban/Faplan side, with 94 tanks and hundreds of combat vehicles destroyed, against 31 South Africans killed in action,3 tanks destroyed (SADF tanks entered the war after the Lomba River campaign) and 11 SADF armoured cars and troop carriers lost. A total of 9 Migs were destroyed and only 1 SAAF Mirage shot down.” Jannie Geldenhuys.1994: At the front: 240 Johanathan Ball Publishers. The states=> Back home in South Africa. NATO North Atlantic treaty organization.]</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>
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the beret must have been
a dead give away, 
and the shoulder flashes
also proclaimed something
of the military unit that I belonged to.

Tired and almost asleep on my feet
after the long military flight
out of the war zone,..."></div>
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