[jabbermog]

Winkle Out : - To force out , like you force out the sea - food out of it’s shell .

I am surprised the Royal Anglias have inflicted so much damage though ; they don’t come from a particularly rough part of the country . On the other hand , some of the Jock regiments (the Black Watch or the Cameron Highlanders) or the Paras being mental cases I can understand .

By the bye , can any Freeper tell me if the US Army has units which recruit in certain States or cities ? If not , why not ?

[Cheburashka]

By the bye , can any Freeper tell me if the US Army has units which recruit in certain States or cities ? If not , why not ?

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We have National Guard units (equivalent to your Territorials) which are recruited on a state-by-state basis, but we have never used a local area regiment recruiting system for regular troops.

It works for you Brits, but we never saw the need.

[teeman8r]

navy ships used to be crewed with the inhabitants of the states they were named for, but losing one meant too much devastation to morale that theystopped the practice...

teeman

[PotatoHeadMick]

Curiously when I was growing up in Derry in the 1970’s and 80’s the Royal Anglians were the most disliked British Regiment, after the Paras (for obvious reasons). They seemed to be involved in an inordinate amout of deaths of civilians (ok not all of them were strictly speaking ‘civilians’) and I believe there was even long term resentment about their behaviour in the city during riots and civil disturbances back in the early 1920’s!

The Royal Marines and the Scottish regiments never attracted such hostility in a way that those regiments did in Belfast due to their, shall we say, rather robust attitude to soldiering there.