Maybe a local, a pro, or another soldier. But you think it's common for them to import a civilian to shack up with them in the most dangerous place in the world?
If something happened to her, would it have been a terrible black eye for the Army?
Hey, man, you don’t talk to the Colonel. You listen to him. The man’s enlarged my mind. He’s a poet warrior in the classic sense. I mean sometimes he’ll... uh... well, you’ll say “hello” to him, right? And he’ll just walk right by you. He won’t even notice you. And suddenly he’ll grab you, and he’ll throw you in a corner, and he’ll say, “Do you know that ‘if’ is the middle word in life? If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you, if you can trust yourself when all men doubt you”... I mean I’m... no, I can’t... I’m a little man, I’m a little man, he’s... he’s a great man! I should have been a pair of ragged claws scuttling across floors of silent seas...
I don’t think “embedded journalist” means what MAJ Gant thinks it means....
Well Ike had his civilian chauffeur Kay Summersby and Patton had Red Cross volunteer Jean Gordon sent to France. So yeah it was kinda similar. Maybe not common but similar.