My dad served in Europe and he told me things that broke my heart
Never again. Who’s worth invading? Haven’t we learned by now?
Troops stationed overseas should be paid for by the host countries.
My grandpa fought for McArthur in the S W Pacific.
He drove a bulldozer, and was a mechanic when needed. Endured bugs, heat and humidity, tropical fungus and diseases, short rations, shifts that were brutal—6 on and 6 off for days. Occasionally Japnese airstrikes (that loved to target Bulldozers) and even Japanese snipers.
Still compared to a rifleman they would have called him lucky. He had a cot and pillow with mosquito net and a tent each night, hot meals usually, base security (Air Force engineer battalions came with their own organic security platoons armed with all light arms including MGs and bazookas) and once an island was more secure even ice, a commons area and rarely beer.
831st (871st..something) AAEB Battalion 1943-1945