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I think the entire mission could have been better arranged. But at the end of the day, the guys on the ground are still the ones responsible for making do with the situtation they've been handed. I think Task Force Ranger aquitted itself well.

Those three lines are the best wrap-up I've ever read about that operation.

[Cannoneer No. 4]

"I'd like to have two armies: one for display with lovely guns, tanks, little soldiers, staffs, distinguished and doddering generals, and dear little regimental officers who would be deeply concerned over their general's bowel movements or their colonel's piles, an army that would be shown for a modest fee on every fairground in the country.

"The other would be the real one, composed entirely of young enthusiasts in camouflage uniforms, who would not be put on display, but from whom impossible efforts would be demanded and to whom all sorts of tricks would be taught. That's the army in which I should like to fight."

--Jean Larteguy