[TML] Current USAF fleet was Re: CT Sup 7, Crews room sizes.

[Jerry W Barrington]

On 5/1/08 1:29 AM, "Richard Aiken" <raikenclw at gmail.com> wrote:

> Buettner has an afterword in the re-print of this first book where he
> admits to being caught out by the pace of technical advances.  The
> tech which he assumed to be ~40 years out has since been mostly
> deployed in the Middle East.  In fact, he gleefully steals some
> current military slang (such as "battle rattle," for the noise
> ceramic-plate-armor makes when you're hustling), for use in his second
> book.

Current?  The term has been in use since at least '95 (not to mention a WWII
use meaning combat fatigue or jitters).