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On Tue, 5/17/16, Richard Aiken <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:

 Subject: Re: [TML] New toy- "switchblade" loitering munition
 To: "tml" <xxxxxx@simplelists.com>
 Date: Tuesday, May 17, 2016, 3:35 PM

 On Tue, May 17, 2016 at
 4:25 PM, Bruce  Johnson <xxxxxx@pharmacy.arizona.edu>
 wrote:

 Just don’t
 get caught. Soldiers sent in ‘covertly as innocent
 civvies’ are generally executed upon
 capture. 

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 True . . .
 Three months before the planned
 invasion date (e.g. just enough time for the information to
 arrive at the target world as part of routine news sources),
 the military forces of the invader promulgate a set of new
 uniform regulations. These regs just *happen* to use a
 popular line of commercial outdoor clothing widely available
 on the target world as the basis for field dress uniform.
 The various unit/rank badges are the only things which set
 this apparel apart as military rather than commercial, with
 said badges equipped with quick-attach/release capability
 (ostensibly for protection against snipers picking out
 high-rank targets). Blank badges are shipped to the force
 members as commercial cargo (a cover company having been set
 up which uses the blank badge shape as it's logo), to be
 completed on site and carried at all times during the final
 stage of invasion preparation.
 "Bullocks! We're going to
 be captured! Quick! Slap on your
 badges!"
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And then;

"Sir, we captured another group of 5th-columnists."

"You know what to do with them."

"But sir, they claim that they're in uniform."

"Uniform! Those look like civvies to me!"

"But they do have badges on them."

"Badges! What badges? I don't see any badges! First Sergeant! You see any badges?"

"Not me sir!"

"Proceed with 'disposal'."

"Yes, sir!"

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