RE: A question of self-defence - Fire extinguishers & self defence

[Steve Schear]

>On 24 Jul 2001, at 1:20, Petro wrote:
> > And what is the primary responsibility of a soldier? Well, in
> > Basic Training I was informed that my basic task was to seek
> > out the enemy and destroy him.

The primary, perhaps only, effective purpose of a military is to "break 
things and kill people."  I seem to recall a book about the Marine Corp 
with a Fedex satire motto along the lines of "When it absolutely has to be 
destroyed overnight!"

steve