[Renkluaf]

Doesn't really need a comment.

[Steely Tom]

Pretty amazing. I hope the guy who wrote that doesn’t get in trouble.

May God bless our soldiers.

[madison10]

Brave to the core.

[max americana]

so no WW2 jokes from our guys about Hitler in Paris?

[Georgia Girl 2]

Effin A!

[SMARTY]

I remember reading that during the second WW, Europeans were aghast at the appearance of Americans.

I’m pretty sure it’s a nutrition thing. Americans were/are heavier built, stronger and more developed... AND taller

There is a window of development for that stuff and if nutrition is poor during formative years... you can’t ‘catch up’ later.

One European said ‘We couldn’t believe how tall and big all of them were...’

[Alberta's Child]

I guy I know who saw action in several military campaigns once told me that Belgium (surprisingly!) has the best soldiers of all the NATO countries. What he found most impressive about their soldiers was that they had very little "specialization" among them, and they were all trained to deal with almost any situation that came up in the field: infantry operations, sniper ops, fixing a Humvee that broke down in a convoy, translating in X different languages, etc. It seemed like they never had to call someone else to a situation to deal with something that was beyond their capabilities on the spot.

For whatever that's worth ...

[Midwesterner53]

Thank you young man. God bless you and may you be safe and happy.

[rlmorel]

I seem to remember this from years ago!

[Starstruck]

Obama tried to take that quick response away from our military with a buffer of lawyers.As an aside, after my military service I spent 45 years in engineering. We worked with companies from many countries. What made us more effective was the ability to make decisions individually while they would have to form a committee to make the decision. It would sometimes take weeks. If we were individually wrong, it usually didn’t take weeks to correct the problem.

[JOHN ADAMS]

Guys — it’s not just the American diet of hamburgers and milkshakes.

Several times a month I play back in my head the magnificent tribute by a Marine general to two Marines who sacrificed their lives while preventing a terrorist from blowing up a barracks and killing several hundred Marines and Iraqi soldiers working with them. I know most people on this board are familiar with General Kelly’s speech, but I think about it a lot and it’s worth repeating:

The recording shows the truck careening to a stop immediately in front of the two Marines. In all of the instantaneous violence Yale and Haerter never hesitated. By all reports and by the recording, they never stepped back. They never even started to step aside. They never even shifted their weight. With their feet spread shoulder width apart, they leaned into the danger, firing as fast as they could work their weapons. They had only one second left to live.

The truck explodes. The camera goes blank. Two young men go to their God.

“They never even shifted their weight.” This is what the French soldier was talking about.

https://www.businessinsider.com/john-kellys-speech-truck-bomb-2017-4

[dfwgator]

Heavily built, fed at the earliest age with Gatorade, proteins, and creatine

Thank you Dr. Cade.

[Lurkinanloomin]

Yes, American soldiers are exceptional.

Which is why we should not be wasting them in Afghanistan.

[Bull Snipe]

Actually and older piece. Saw this piece floating around 4 or 5 years ago.