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Last year at a party i was talking to a young Squaddie who was on home leave from Iraq he was telling me some stories about how bad it could get there I'll spare the gory stuff but one story cracked me up.
He was on duty at a relief station handing out food rations and he said it was getting ugly as the local gangsters were pushing to the front trying to grab as much for themselves( they then sell it back to the poor civillians) he said they were shoving old women out of the way and the headmen there were to scared to say anything.
Well the squad leader had had enough of trying to keep order and gave the order to fix bayonets,all that was heard was the clatter of bayonets being fixed and the intake of breath as one from the crowd as they all stepped back.
Anyway the upshot was the crooks vanished and peace was restored and the food packets were handed out.
I asked him if he would have used the bayonet if he had to,he just gave me a smile but didn't answer
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