gridlore: Doug looking off camera with a grin (M-16)
Douglas Berry ([personal profile] gridlore) wrote2002-09-10 12:31 pm

One of the greats is gone

Uzi Gal, the man who single handedly armed Israel, died yesterday at 79. The Uzi submachine gun is probably the second most recognized weapon in the world (behind the AK-47)

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[identity profile] todkaninchen.livejournal.com 2002-09-12 04:36 pm (UTC)(link)
Jeez!

One year they lost entire trains for weeks because of the Mississippi flooding!

I can't imagine the poor bastard...

I think, for us, all sensitive items were removed and shipped seperately in connexes.

Which meant only they (or was it they and the M1A1's?) had to be directly guarded.