B
Well, that's what makes it a powder keg. The, um, I'll go back in time a little bit, to about eighty-one,
A
Uh-huh.
B
when my first real involvement with the military started. Um, naturally we were at the time, the Soviet Union was considered to be the big military power and the big threat. So we got lots, quite a bit of information as well as indoctrination on Soviet tactics and weapons.
A
Uh-huh.
B
I went to Lebanon in eighty-three, before the marines ever got there, with the U N Peace Keeping Force. And with the training I received prior to going there, with captured weapons we kept running up against. These weren't, these weren't Chinese made copies. These were Soviet made, top of the line, fresh out of the box, A K forty-sevens.
A
Um, uh-huh.