>>Putting 'visited' in quotes like that gives it an ominous edge ... like "visiting death on someone" :-) You said you'd discharged the gun twice. What stopped the bullets?
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>As you can imagine, a body. A couple of times I only had to shoot into the air though to let them know there was a weapon that would be used. But then I almost stopped a bullet a couple of times myself.

Well it could have been the wall behind them! Hmmm, a different world to what I'm used to.
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>...I worked with a few members of Sabre Squadrons (are they still called that?) and it was very interesting because at that time there were no women in those units. I assume that is still the case.

Never having been in the military, I wouldn't know any of that I'm afraid. There certainly are now women on active, but I don't think they go bursting through doors and counter-insurgency and all that, and I don't know about in SF. According to a British TV drama series about the SAS, there are women in the SAS.

>...but did you know that in 1997 there was a small SAS group in Lima, Peru?

Ah, well if I HAD known then they'd have had to kill me! :-)

>A friend of mine was there. Are you familiar with the British company Defense Systems Limited?

No