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Old 05-01-05, 00:50
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Originally posted by Darrell Zinck
IIRC it is a small motorbike that every troop leader had on the back of his tank. This was to get him to orders quicker in a Sqn/Regt'l leaguer. They weren't in service long.

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C'mon, Darrell...a Troop Leader doesn't go to a"leaguer" for an "O" Gp... he goes to a "laager".

How this bastardization of the proper term, first used during the Boer War, escapes me.

One arranges oneself, in a defensive posture, in a laager. Note the spelling... comments, Hanno, Dirk, et al?

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