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Passive-aggressive (and just plain aggressive) notes — no, your. What I learned from life in a combat zone. There was some discussion in my unit at drill this weekend about pulling together the "lessons learned" from our recent deployment. The idea is that we'd make a list of things we wished we had known before we went to help out the next time we or somebody else gets deployed. Its a good idea, and there are some things I would have done differently if I knew then what I know now (driving around in a HMMWV? - always have a 15mm wrench with you!) , but I have to admit that I really didn't learn all that much that I didn't know before.

I did figure out that some things that I'd been taught in the military before I went really are important (and some other things, of course, aren't.) In one way and another, I mostly learned that my Scoutmaster was right - Be Prepared: "Take care of your equipment and your equipment will take care of you. " With that said, equipment always fails, and it never fails at a convenient time. "Two is one and one is none. " "Have a plan. "Rehearse, rehearse, rehearse. " Robb Report Luxury Portal | Robb Report. Video Mushiuta 01 RAW - mushiuta, 01, raw, anime, episode - Dail. Operation Gladio. Emblem of "Gladio", Italian branch of the NATO "stay-behind" paramilitary organizations. The motto, "Silendo Libertatem Servo", means "In being silent, I save freedom". Operation Gladio (Italian: Operazione Gladio) is the codename for a clandestine North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) "stay-behind" operation in Italy during the Cold War.

Its purpose was to continue armed resistance in the event of a Warsaw Pact invasion and conquest. Although Gladio specifically refers to the Italian branch of the NATO stay-behind organizations, "Operation Gladio" is used as an informal name for all of them. The name Gladio is the Italian form of gladius, a type of Roman shortsword. Gladio was part of a series of national operations first coordinated by the Clandestine Committee of the Western Union (CCWU), founded in 1948.

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