Thu 17 Apr 2008
The Dismounted Cavalry
Posted by Ricardo under Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
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From a Brazilian defense establishment site, commemorating the 6th year of the Brazilian Air Force’s infantry battalion.
Translation: “Hipomobile cells are ideal to cover airbases’ long perimeters.”
Hipomobile cell… To paraphrase Paulo Francis, the moment the Brazilian military calls soldiers on horseback “cavalry” and not “hipomobile cell”, Hugo Chavez will become a Hare Krishna, the FARC will start planting sunflowers and Paraguay will donate their half of Itaipú to Brazil.
One of my father’s pearls comes to mind:
“The reason the army generals wore sunglasses is that otherwise they’d graze on their own uniforms”.
(via DefesaNet)
