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Originally posted by Bill Murray
Starting to get far too long here. One last throwaway. At the Chosin reservoir my Dad was CO of the 5th Marine Regiment. He had attached to that unit a Battalion of British Royal Marines and a Company of soldiers in the Turkish Army. To this day, he still lives, he maintains that if he ever had to go into combat again he would ask for a unit from each of the above to go in with him. Why? Not only Esprit de Corps but training. "Best damned trained troops I ever served with" Excepting his own Marines of course.
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Strewth, Bill! I never knew that!!!!!! Dammit, now I'm gonna have to reread RETREAT, HELL! and a couple of other books on the subject I have on my shelves somewhere. In terms of U.S. military action, next to the Battle of the Bulge, that campaign has my undiminished attention. Holy shit, and your dad was there in the thick of it. And yes, I even remember fragments from the RM interaction there.
Our own Art Johnson here can tell you one hell of a lot about OUR guys' experience in Korea (if you haven't gathered that already). Nasty place.
More later on the rest of your post, I'm a bit stunned (in more ways than one, it's been a long week).
To the old guy -- "Semper Fi". I
like Marines. Always have.
Geoff
G.