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Originally Posted by JJ_BPK
There are Soldiers...
And there are Grunts...
You train Grunts to be Soldiers..
But in the end, Ya go to war with what you got..
Nuff said..
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JJ,
In 1956-57, when I first was sent to the 11th Abn, they were assigned the task of training the NEW German army...
The Bundeswehr as they were appropriately called, originally was started in newspaper ads requesting that all former WW2 soldiers willing to be the nucleus training cadre for the new German army can apply.........Quite a few germans applied,but quite a few weren't accepted because of wounds incurred in battles. The ones that survived were trained as the drill sgts. I was not involved in that program,however I talked to guys who were and they said it was difficult to break down their goose step marching and their exiting from an airplane .......But,they claimed they never worked with such motivated men in their lives.....
Privates saluted corporals,corporals saluting sgts,etc. This was not required of them they just did it. I think the 10th SF Grp got involved,but to what degree I'm not sure................
GB TFS
