https://www.ufopaedia.org/index.php?title=Starting_Your_Shadowy_Paramilitary_Organization&feed=atom&action=historyStarting Your Shadowy Paramilitary Organization - Revision history2024-03-28T15:24:47ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.35.4https://www.ufopaedia.org/index.php?title=Starting_Your_Shadowy_Paramilitary_Organization&diff=46872&oldid=prevHobbes: categorizing2013-07-23T02:46:24Z<p>categorizing</p>
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</table>Hobbeshttps://www.ufopaedia.org/index.php?title=Starting_Your_Shadowy_Paramilitary_Organization&diff=34270&oldid=prevMarkho: Clarified terror ufo attack procedure (with ref. to bugs:last shot always misses)2011-12-12T11:34:00Z<p>Clarified terror ufo attack procedure (with ref. to bugs:last shot always misses)</p>
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</table>Markhohttps://www.ufopaedia.org/index.php?title=Starting_Your_Shadowy_Paramilitary_Organization&diff=25604&oldid=prevArrow Quivershaft: /* <i style="font-family:cursive;">Day One: Hit the Ground Running</i> */ Minor spelling error. BEWARE, I LIVE!2009-12-08T04:19:34Z<p><span dir="auto"><span class="autocomment"><i style="font-family:cursive;">Day One: Hit the Ground Running</i>: </span> Minor spelling error. BEWARE, I LIVE!</span></p>
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</table>Papa Legbahttps://www.ufopaedia.org/index.php?title=Starting_Your_Shadowy_Paramilitary_Organization&diff=16945&oldid=prevPapa Legba: This is good advice, but it belongs under base defense. It's more detail than this doc needs. Also, spellchecked my own stuff.2008-09-16T16:29:52Z<p>This is good advice, but it belongs under base defense. It's more detail than this doc needs. Also, spellchecked my own stuff.</p>
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