Posted on 10/22/2022 10:06:05 PM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com
Yeah. I lugged one of those around for 23 years too.
Sounds like a Potemkin training ground designed to show Putin they are doing their job. Hah! No wonder Russia is loosing!
It seems GIs quit carrying an entrenching tool as part of their everyday gear but the Army has brought back foxhole training and basics such as camouflage and camo grease (at least they were in 2016).
In a real land war like this one with artillery barrages, and front lines I would definitely want to be issued an entrenching tool.
“do you trolls get paid extra for weekends?”
Yes, do you?
Double BS!
By and large it was a lot, because the home front was a long way from the fighting, and we not desperate. But I had an uncle from West Texas who, on December 8, 1941, hitch hiked to the nearest town on the railroad, took a train to the nearest town large enough to have a Navy recruiter, and enlisted that afternoon. It would have taken him at least two days to reach California on the train -- the government did not buy recruits tickets on an express -- so he could not have begun training before December 11. He spent Christmas Day, 1941, on board a ship headed to Pearl Harbor.
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