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...design. Made of a high-strength organic fiber, it features a flattened top and "skirts" that come down over the ears and nape of the neck; it looks unnervingly like the German model of World War II, but offers 30% more protection against shrapnel than the old Ml. The weight is about the same but it comes in three sizes, and soldiers who have tested it say it feels lighter, mainly because the wobble is eliminated...
...Defense Department decides the new helmet is worth close to $50 v. $15 for the Ml, the old pot could soon go the way of Willie and Joe and the draft...
Like in W.W. II guys used the Ml, a. Browning automatic rifle, grenades, some machine guns and a bazooka to knock out tanks, if they were close enough. Like 20 ft., our drill instructor said. That's sort of a joke. Well, the M-16 is a lot easier to handle than the Ml, and it can be used after dark. It's got a night scope that can pick up targets a mile away using infra-red light. And you should see what we have instead of the old bazooka. First there...
...rhetoric, she adds incredulously: "That is the way they talk," She claims to be confused over how the people can learn from The People. Irreverently explaining that she could not otherwise keep them straight, she abbreviates recurring slogans. Marxism-Leninism and Mao Tse-Tung Thought is reduced to ML&M. Struggle, Criticism and Transformation becomes SCAT. Expedient, but something was obviously lost in translation...
...effectively debunks much of the propaganda credited with China's progress. Fertilizer, after all, has done more to raise food production than ML&M, and Tuchman notes that not even Mao has thought of a Thought that has been able to stop spitting in the streets. Perhaps because the ideology is so pervasive, she enjoys poking fun at it and pointing out the inconsistencies. In short, she fails to take the revolution seriously...