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I was a soldier before I was a police. About 1/3 of my partners were soldiers too. We had a few of Uncle Sam's misguided children along too. maybe another 1/3rd of the department. No sailors or airmen but then it's hard to think of them as members of "armed" services. I did know one Coasty who was manly enough to pin on tin, but then he was in law enforcement positions as a Coasty. Maybe Marine riflemen, Army cavalry troopers and Ranger medics aren't combat arms enough to be disqualified.
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"To spit on your hands and lower the pike; to stand fast over the body of Leonidas the King; to be rear guard at Kunu-Ri; to stand and be still to the Birkenhead Drill; these are not rational acts. They are often merely necessary." Pournelle
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