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gaius on June 6, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Microsoft Update mechanism has been used to sp...

I'd be willing to bet some young combat engineer said "but what about the roof?" and some old general replied "you'll never get a horse up there!".

pygy_ on June 6, 2012 [–]

It's worse than that.

The roof should have been mined, but the soldiers petitioned the hierarchy to keep their sports field...

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