Allied Forces Headquarters (WWII Mediterranean Theater) was famous for a number of surveys, seeking to identify ways to improve the lot of the common soldier as well as providing gainful employment to its thousands of REMFs.
One of more REMF moments was the idea to have soldiers write an essay on "Why I'm Fighting"...the winner would get a five day pass to Algiers. The winning essay, in its entirety: "I was drafted."
source was The Liberation Trilogy" by Rick Atkinson
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The reason that the American Army does so well in wartime, is that war is chaos, and the American Army practices chaos on a daily basis.
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