...and the overweight ones provide good, non-freezing lubrication for mechanical devices. Patton knew whereof he spoke!
Point reasonably well taken, though there are some such who I'd be more generally prefer to have covering their own operational area as a tripwire and listening post for mine. They're not the ones who got us into such a sad state, and unless they get greedy, I'd tend to prefer to see their talents put to good use too.
And Patton had one point wrong, which he know doubt knew better, but was making his point to a bunch of troops who were NOT his tank crews: you do NOT *grease your tank tracks*, with Kraut bodies or other substances: you want your center guides and end connectors fised in place as solidly as possible, and around beachhead landings, a trip through the surf or a few buckets of seawater are often employed to promote rusting of the bolts thereoff to lessen the chance of their loosening from vibration.
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