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11. That's a surprise.

Reply to HubertHeaver (Reply #10)

Mon Oct 12, 2015, 10:19 AM

Oct 2015

If there is any elitism thinking in the military, it usually comes from the Air Force. Wonder if this fundy purity infiltration had anything to do with that kind of thinking.

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