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To: Jimmy Valentine

“... Russian infantry has very poor firing discipline. “Spray and pray” burns a lot of ammo ...”

US infantry may be better disciplined today, but in WWII and Korea we went through a lot of ammo. A GI in a foxhole may look cool and relaxed, but he isn’t. The adrenaline is flowing and if he sees or hears a rustle in a bush ahead there will be half dozen emptying their ammo clip into the bush.

Of course, we weren’t professionals then but citizen-soldiers - draftees.


59 posted on 03/06/2023 9:15:32 AM PST by elpadre (nd )
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To: elpadre

At least later in the war if not sooner, very well-trained draftees.


65 posted on 03/06/2023 11:33:30 AM PST by ansel12 (NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.)
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