Peptobismol9
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Is there any way I can look at who my rifle was issued to or track where it was stored at. I think it would be cool to see kill counts, or soldier information.
I think it would be cool to see kill counts, or soldier information.
+1, with a little more detail...Probably been dropped more than once.
I read once where of all the men born in the Soviet Union in 1923, 3% survived the war. 97% casualties of men born that birth year.
Casualties in the eastern front were staggering.
Don't get me started. Wait, you just did.How come we didn't read about this in class?
In his book "Learning to Eat Soup With A Knife" LTC Nagl compares the successful counterinsurgency conducted by the British in Malaysia with the unsuccessful counterinsurgency conducted by the US in Vietnam. His larger point was whether a large institution has a culture of learning or not.
Hollywood has put out movie after movie about the American experience in Vietnam. When was the last time you saw a movie about the Malaysian insurgency?
Its likley to be count of something. kills?
Military history has it's own adherents. The problem is that we often end up "navel gazing" and reflecting only on our own military history and tradition.
In his book "Learning to Eat Soup With A Knife" LTC Nagl compares the successful counterinsurgency conducted by the British in Malaysia with the unsuccessful counterinsurgency conducted by the US in Vietnam. His larger point was whether a large institution has a culture of learning or not.
Hollywood has put out movie after movie about the American experience in Vietnam. When was the last time you saw a movie about the Malaysian insurgency? Heck, ask a few strangers on the street about the Winter War or Boer War and see how many blank expressions you get (especially from those under 30...).
Jimro
+1. FWIW here's another war story to illustrate this point. During WWII, the Germans kept painstaking records of almost everything. (This is one reason that historians have written so many books about the Third Reich... the research is easy.)As far as "kill counts"....real war doesn't work the way it looks on your Xbox 360. You don't end a mission and get a neat printout of how many shots you took (gotta count mags left in pouches for that), or how many hits you made. Most of the time a soldier just has to shoot back at the muzzle flashes and hope for the best.