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Do not touch anything unnecessarily. Beware of pretty girls in dance halls and parks who may be spies, as well as bicycles, revolvers, uniforms, arms, dead horses, and men lying on roads -- they are not there accidentally.

- Soviet infantry manual, issued in the 1930's

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Military Word Of The Day
RAP
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Regimental Aid Post. Former term for UMS Unit Medical Station


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Today in Military History

November 7



1900:

VC won by Lt Hampden Zane Churchill Cockburn, The Royal Canadian Dragoons, Leliefontien, Komati River


1900:

VC won by Lt Richard Ernest Turner, The Royal Canadian Dragoons, Leliefontien, Komati River


1900:

VC won by Sgt Edward James Gibson Holland, The Royal Canadian Dragoons, Leliefontien, Komati River




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