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I Am The Infantry

Posted on March 3, 2008 | Comments Off on I Am The Infantry

It leans a bit toward the airborne, but straight legs get near-equal time. Nice video for you vets or wannabees. Especially you wannabees of enlistment age. Now IS the time!

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Grunt work

Posted on September 3, 2007 | Comments Off on Grunt work

In the Marines, it’s Military Occupational Speciality 0311. In the Army, it’s MOS 11 Bravo. Doesn’t matter what you call it, it’s still the infantry. And, though the ancient Greeks used men of all ages in the phalanx, theirs was a different kind of war. Nowadays, it is, as W. Thomas Smith Jr. says, young man’s work.

Via OpFor. 

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Veterans Day Weekend

Posted on November 10, 2006 | Comments Off on Veterans Day Weekend

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A day early, I guess, but I’m in the mood for it. This is a decal made up for my 1968 infantry OCS class by our one computer jockey, with representative places where we served in Vietnam, some more than once. We’ve had two reunions since 2003, and another one planned for next summer.

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“Background chatter men”

Posted on August 6, 2006 | Comments Off on “Background chatter men”

I don’t recall anyone in the Army of the 1960s sounding like LTC Randolph C. White, Jr., but times certainly have changed in the past forty years. The quote below is from a Free Republic transcript of White’s speech to an advanced individual training (in this case, infantry) graduation back in April at Fort Benning, Ga., and it’s a rouser:

"Don’t let the pessimistic television talking heads, high browed newspaper writers, Hollywood idiots, or any other faction of the ‘blame America first’ crowd get you down! I’m speaking of the ‘Latte Biscotti Crowd.’ They are simply background chatter men and will always exist on the periphery of any endeavor that requires selfless service or loyalty. They are not worthy of your concern and truth be told — in the pit of their cowardly hearts — they wish they could be like you."

Blackfive has the complete video and the transcript and a link to where all 26 MB of the video can be downloaded for repeated viewings and squirreling away.

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