Posted on 12/01/2009 10:03:07 PM PST by narses
The current administration(just like clintoons)supports and advances only those political officers that kiss their asses. Fighting officers are relegated to the background or forced out.
"Our diversity, not only in our Army, but in our country, is a strength. And as horrific as this tragedy was, if our diversity becomes a casualty, I think that's worse."
General Casey (going on national television 2 days after the mass murder at Fort Hood) to argue that loss of diversity would be worse than more jihad mass murder of his soldiers.
I'm not even supposed to be in England. Let the first bastards to find out be the goddamn Germans. Someday I want them to raise up on their hind legs and howl,.."Jesus Christ, it's the goddamn Third Army and that son-of-a-bitch Patton again."
And that they did General, many times. The Germans called your 4th Armored Division, 'Roosevelt's Butchers'.
And ... On April 4, 1945, the 4th Armored Division overran Ohrdruf, a subcamp of the Buchenwald concentration camp and the first Nazi camp liberated by U.S. troops.
4th Armored Division BUMP!
From Utah Beach: 11, July, 1944, through France, Bastogne, The Battle of the Bulge, and on to Czechoslovakia at the end.
I think he’d slapped the faces of a lot Democrats for being cowards and enemy appeasers.
My version has the man fixing the wire, too. It is basically the same as this one, except Patton presses the soldier fixing the wire that needs to be fixed --saying something like, "Doesn't all the the shooting bother you?" The soldier replies, "No, sir, but you sure as hell do."
Yesterday, I read the November Imprimis--Victor David Hanson speaking at Hillsdale College on the Future of Western War:
Yet another factor is that Western armies are impatient. They tend to want to seek out and destroy the enemy quickly and then go home. Of course, this can be both an advantage and a disadvantage, as we see today in Afghanistan, where the enemy is not so eager for decisive battle...(emphasis mine)
Sadly, Zero and the Left (whom we assume enjoy the protection provided by the men and women who serve our country) just don't get it.
Yes indeed, but that Patton speech is still chemically pure bullshit.
JWe sure as hell need a LEADER today like Patton!
Should have put on the sarc tag I guess. Obama is to Patton what Rosie O’Donnell is to Heidi Klum.
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