[OldSigmaChi]

Having spent time with the Infantry at a wonderful place called Fort Hunter Liggett in California (they filmed We were Soldiers there because it looks like Vietnam, also has mountains, swamps, desert, etc - etc) the squirrels have a very unique habit. They dig burrows underground - no they are not prairie dogs, I'm from Tennessee - I know a squirrel when I see one. Well the military does most of it's missions at night, so you step down into one of those ankle breakers dug by one of those "little, cute" critters 30 klicks from nowhere and you develop a new respect for how they defend themselves. Also, they had a nasty habit of getting the Bubonic plague, yes The Bubonic Plague and when troops flopped down on the ground over one of their holes - a little bite here and there caused quiet the sensation. Needless to say the squirrels were greatly respected and feared. They caused more casualties in most war games than dehydration, mechanical accidents, or sunstroke combined.
Hooah! :-D