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I respect those who can communicate in multiple languages. It's a talent that is decisively under-taught in American schools. I recall in Basic training everyone was given the test that determines how well you can learn a foreign language and how hard they worked to talk a guy out of his contractual guaranteed training and into language school. The ability to be GOOD at a 2nd language is something you are really born with. I took French in junior high and was a C student and they didn't ask me. However, the stories that Amir has been relating don't seem to track well with what should be expected in tactical air operations. It isn't the language problem, it's the "logic" problem. The stories relate lots of single-ship, unsupported operations and an unbelievable compression of time and space resulting inevitably in victory for the IIAF (I guess they no longer employ the first "I" in the name,) over the blundering Iraqi foe. Comments have been asked for, and I offer them strictly from the perspective of what I would consider flaws in the stories. It sounds like the Iranian version of Adam Yoshida has started posting here. ;-) Ed Rasimus Fighter Pilot (USAF-Ret) "When Thunder Rolled" www.thunderchief.org www.thundertales.blogspot.com |
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