MacCaulay
Banned
They were actually nurses who qualified as paratroopers so they could be airdroped if needed.
I don't know how that will affect your hot factor meter....
I just got done reading a book about the French in Indochina that talked about that. Some of the nurses had half a dozen jumps by the end.
Mac,
Would this convince you to get jump qualified?
You couldn't get me to jump if you put a million dollars in unmarked bills in the LZ.
In 1640, when Portugal became once again independent from Spain, Brasil was partly occupied by the Dutch, and partly in the process of being rebuilt by goodwilling (with a pro spanish agenda) jesuits that were trying to convert the natives rather then have them enslaved. The local portuguese forces had to fight a conventional war with the dutch, and a irregular war to eliminate the new jesuit inspired comunities and consolidate the border with neighbouring spanish colonies. So there was a portuguese led counterinsurgency of sorts in Barsil, but it happened in the XVII century. The leading exponent of the counterinsurgency side was a man called Raposo Tavares, at least in the rather one sided portuguese history books written in the 30s...
...so...what would happen if we used the Dutch instead of the Portuguese?