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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

They sure found a lot of uses for these shields.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago

Always makes me wonder how much of it came from "We're paying men to stay under arms 24/7 for years of their lives, and bored soldiers are always fucking about with their equipment"