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This reads as though it is straight out of a Monty Python sketch: I was having tea with A Company when we heard a lot of shouting and went out to investigate.
by numair 17y ago
This reads as though it is straight out of a Monty Python sketch:
I was having tea with A Company when we heard a lot of shouting and went out to investigate. We found our men and the Germans standing on their respective parapets. Suddenly a salvo arrived but did no damage. Naturally both sides got down and our men started swearing at the Germans, when all at once a brave German got on to his parapet and shouted out "We are very sorry about that; we hope no one was hurt. It is not our fault, it is that damned Prussian artillery."
- stcredzero 17y agoI went to a military academy as a high school student, and we had lots of military instructors who were in Vietnam. One of them was a Staff Sergeant in US Army logistics. Though they were logistics, they occasionally had to defend themselves. According to this one instructor's account, US logistics personnel would deliberately miss the enemy, and would instead try to almost hit them in order to scare them. The logic was this: as logistics, you don't want to fight them -- that's not your job! You just want to get out of there in one piece with your supplies. So you try to get the machine-gun bullets to go right past them or right around them. That should scare them into taking cover. The last thing you wanted to do was to kill someone's best friend and have them go super suicide commando on you. I told this to an acquaintance who was an ex-marine from a family full of ex-marines, and he just commented that this was what was wrong with the Army. Apparently, a lot of people in the Marines are definitely there to kill the enemy.